Im in agreement for the most part here too. Novices example MAY hold water if the pot is a large pot. For example blinds are 100/200 average stack is 5000, you have 6000 and Player As all in is 1800 (not unreasonable 9x BB means almost any raise is a push). You call with AKs as does another player with ??. There is now 27 BBs (5400 chips) in this pot, you figure your opponent not to have a pair and your AK to be good, if you get your other opponent with mid PP, lets say, out of the hand.
Of course you could be completely wrong and look like an idiot, and Im not saying its something Id do often, but if the pot is big enough that its worth taking a chance of not eliminating a player to steal this may not be as poor of a play as it seems. While taking this risk of not eliminating the player, you also take a chance of getting the 3rd opponent with a better hand out and giving you a 5400 pot, making you amoungst the chip leaders now.
On the bubble this obviously goes down in value even more so though
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