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My thinking is that elimination is more important than preserving my stack advantage.

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This makes no sense. First of all, as long as you have a 'stack advantage', you cannot immediately bust (you cover everybody), you can put great pressure on your opponents, etc. You want to use the fold equity you have.

Secondly, you say 'elimination is more important than preserving my stack advantage'. By this you mean that you will call raises/all-ins of short(er) stacks with marginal hands, because you want to bust them. BUT if you call an all-in with a marginal hand, you are usually the underdog. You give the short stack great odds to double up, and you will lose 1/3 of your stack. It's like you 'help them'. >> very -EV.