Please don't be Robin Hood- one big tip to stop torching EV in satellites.

I've seen this a couple times now and am always shocked.

The context is a satellite tournament on the bubble. Sometimes people will be in a multiway pot with the shortest stack already all in. The most EV positive situation is for everyone to check down to have the highest likelihood of cashing and beating the all in short stack. There is no benefit to getting more chips as the tournament will be over if the small stack busts. Sometimes someone will bet with a non-made hand and might chase out better hands from the pot and cause the small stack to win. This is worse case scenario for everyone but the short stack.

There is sometimes value in betting your made hands in order to chip up from the side pot in case the short stack gets lucky BUT if you chase the winning hand out of the pot (think A high betting and scaring a small pair out of the pot which leads to the short stack with a worse pair winning the hand) you're passing free EV to the short stack. You should not be bluffing or betting thin value in these positions because the chips you gain are likely worth less than having another live hand to catch something with to bust the short stack.

I'm not even sure if we should be betting with our best made hands, this is where I'm curious to hear from folks with more experience. Are the extra chips in the already worse case scenario (small stack holds) worth possibly chasing a live hand out that could scoop the pot if it was checked down?