[Acorn89]

I would agree with sunny, there are sometimes that you want to check it down but there are times when it would be a good idea to try to win the pot. Also I think the real reason why you would check down a pot is not to eliminate a player but because there is no reason to bluff into a dry side pot since you arent really bluffing since you have to show the hand down anyway. This is especially true if you are in the begining or middle of a tourny were your goal is not to eliminate players but to build your chip stack, like sunny said you cant win the tourny unless you have all the chips.

I probaly would have done the same thing as the aggressive player in your situtation. It sounds like that he was bullying the table. I would want to give a pot to some other player who could use those chips to stop me from bullying a table. Also since he raise he had some dead money in the pot. And its not like its a small pot, if the average is 2500-3000, a 900 pot is about 1/3 the average stack.

One of the times that I think it would be a good idea to call with anything and check down a hand is when you are playing 3 handed and the short stack is very short, then that pot wouldnt have a big impact on the headup match.

So remeber the next time you in the same situation, your goal is to get chips not eliminate players.