[JM]

So I'm playing a single table SNG (9 players) on full tilt yesterday. Starting stacks are 1500, I'm at about 2500 and 3 players are out. One other player has about the same amount of chips as me, and one other has about 3K as I recall (not important tho). 6 players left, tourney pays top 3.

I'm in the BB (30/60 now) and a player to my left who is shortstack goes all in for about 220 or 240. The other guy with about the same amount of chips as me calls, he's on the button, SB folds and I have AJo and call.

Flop is a rainbow K 10 + brick (3 or 4 maybe?). I min bet 60 just to see where I am here and button thinks for a minute then folds. Shortstack shows 9 7o and doesn't improve, I win with high card.

Button then proceeds to curse me out for betting the flop! Tells me I'm lucky it raked my way and how I should have checked it down and that its stupid to maybe triple him up. I told him its not time to check it down yet. He says the object is to get players out, to which I reply the object is to accumulate chips at this stage and if we were on the bubble of in the money, that's the time to check it down. I told him he could have called, it was only 60 and he had well over 2000. Obviously he had a piece or would have at the end of the hand.

Even if it had tripled up the short stack, we each would have still had about 3x as much as him, so not like he'd be a big threat. It did kind of tilt this guy a bit, which helped me take some chips off him when he chased my set to the river at one point. Ended up with the two of us heads up and I pretty much stole 90% of the blinds with a 5:1 advantage going in and knocked him off with 33 when he went all in for about 2000 with AQ.

Anyone think that I should have checked it down there? IMO that is WAY too early in the tourney to be doing that. I want chips, chips and more chips before we get to the bubble.