[Chomp]

Situation comes up a bit, not sure if I have a leak.

When a villain is shortish (let's say 50BB or less) and I hit a big hand, I never worry about protection. I just think, "I want all the money in the middle, I don't care what the board does, it's all going in the best way I can find".

This can happen, as in the eg below, on the flop, or often on the turn when villain has say $20 behind and you decide to get him in with 2 $10 bets rather than, say, one "proper" sized bet on turn of $16 or whatever. So you may be offering him ok odds to call but your higher goal is to get all his stack.

Is this ok, or should I still be betting to protect?

The particular example doesn't really matter, but here's kinda what I'm talking about:

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saw flop | <font color="#C00000">saw showdown</font>

Button <font color="#C00000">Button ($26.40)</font>
SB ($41)
BB <font color="#C00000">Hero ($49)</font>
UTG ($50.50)
UTG+1 ($121.42)

Preflop: Hero is in the BB with T [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] T [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
2 folds, Button raises to 2, 1 fold, Hero raises to 6, Button calls 4.50.

Flop (13.25) T [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 7 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 2 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
Hero checks, Button checks.

Turn (13.25) 6 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
Hero bets 7.50, Button raises to 19.90 all-in, Hero calls 12.40.