ok, find me 1 example, be it a video or anything where you have ever seen a succesful pro bet into a side pot with nothing and i will silence myself on this issue.
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You"re not likely to see this on TV.
(i) Virtually all the televised stages of tournaments are the latter stages and final tables of tournaments where the implicit collusion in question
is the best choice of action.
(ii) On a similar note, a lot of televised tournaments (specifically those that are made for television, as opposed to just having cameras at an existing tournament), become very crapshooty. This means that the other player in the pot wouldn"t be able to fold because they wouldn"t have enough chips left to be able to do so.
(iii) Once you"ve eliminated the 99.9% (and this may be an understatement) of televised tournament poker the above 2 points cover, you would then have to happen to have a hand, not only with a substantial side pot but also being played by an established pro and at the feature televised table.
The situation itself will occur on a fairly regular basis around the world - but because of these reasons (especially (i) and (ii)) you would be very lucky to catch it on TV.
And that...
is why you shouldn"t learn poker from watching it on the telly.