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Originally Posted by BDHarrison
It depends on my opponent. I'm not really happy having obvious AA when stacks are deep enough for my opponent to float the flop and bluff the turn, but that only applies against an opponent who is capable of floating. It bothers me less if my likely caller is a fit-or-fold type who doesn't bet draws.
Sorry, I meant for the type of opponent we're worried about in OP. I have the same trouble...wanting to maximize while also not being exploitable. Intuitively I'd say 2.5 SPR is where I'm at in turning my AA hand face up and allowing anyone to come along, but heads-up that means I'm committing only 16% of my stack pre-flop, which seems like too low of a % to show the strength of my hand. A 2 SPR is only 20% of my stack PF when it's heads-up pref-flop (or I should say that the action is almost all between me and my main opponent, with not a lot of dead money), and a 1 SPR is 1/3rd of my stack. Maybe I'm as tight (or tighter) as the other gentleman in the hand.
More likely though, when we decide to turn our AA hand face up, we're doing so to limit a multiway pot with decent (what will be) dead money into a heads-up flop, more than likely. So in that regard, saying that the dead money is 50% of our pot-sized PF "announcing our hand as AA" bet, 28.4% of our stack in pre-flop (2/7ths) gets us to a 1 SPR on the flop.
Obviously this hand is special b/c we're so deep, but in the majority of confrontations, I think whenever we can get 20-25% of our stack in pre-flop, we're getting the better of it to do so, even if that turns our hand face up to our remaining opponent.