Richard~;232727 wroteI'll bite, putting in more chips with your entire range leaves you open to frequent 3betting. Also, if you adjust by opening ridiculously tight everything sucks when you just win the blinds once per hour. Besides, everyone loves postflop play, also, the Game <.<
goodnight for now
This stuff is def important considerations, raising smaller so you can get away from hands easier when you're 3-bet or reshove on, and not making it so barely anyone ever calls with weaker hands when you have stronger ones on average.
But the main consideration is the stack to pot ratio. With this raise size there's 5100 in the pot. If you c-bet 2600 and get called, the pot's 10300 on the turn and you have 4900 behind, or less than 1 pot-sized bet. If you bet 2600 and get shoved on, you're getting over 3:1 on your money and basically have to get it in anyways as long as you have 2 overs or he can possibly have a draw but you'll be way behind. We're going to be put into tons of awkward flop/turn spots like this with little room to maneuver. I think that raising AQs here with the plan to get it in on any flop just makes little sense, why not just shove pre? At least you know that will be profitable.
If you instead made it 1500, the pot's 3900 on the flop, you bet 2000 and get called, the pot is 7900 on the turn with 6100 behind. This is a way better situation in that we have decent fold equity, so even if we miss the flop but turn a gut shot or flush draw, we can still jam and expect to show a profit by getting them to fold some mid-low pairs. We always want to have at least 3/4 of the pot to jam into the pot on any given street imo. Also, if we get jammed on a K96hhh flop we can easily get away since we're only getting around 2.2:1 and need 30% equity to profitably call.
We always want to leave ourselves options on every street. Committing ourselves for the future streets when the cards/our equity isn't known is usually pretty bad unless you have a good read on someone that gives you reason to do so (they call all 3-bets under all in, so instead of jamming someone pre, you 3-bet AK small out of position and shove any flop). Raising smaller allows us to bet/call flop, bet/fold flop, shove turn as a bluff, check/call turn, or check/fold turn. If we raise this bigger size, almost all of our flop bets will be bet/call, and our turn bluff shoves will work far less frequently since we're shoving for under 1/2 pot.