Please don't do this.

Originally Posted by larsmars

Originally Posted by pankfish

Why in the hell would I stop playing poker just because some short stack playing with 20 bbs already has all of his chips in?

Game theory. If three players, Reg1, Reg2 and Shorty, find themselves in this situation repeatedly, both Reg1 and Reg2 will benefit from soft playing each other in the long term, on the expense of Shorty.

This makes no sense to me...