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Originally Posted by c0rnBr34d
The buy in amount is a good point. I just wasn't sure if 100 BB would give me enough flexibility to maneuver. I'm not dead set on any amount, I was just thinking 150 ish BB would be good as you indicated to not look like a scared money shot taker and have everyone try to push me off hands. Maybe I'll size this down to 1000 - 1200 or so.
About the first bolded: in general you don't always want to "maneuver". Sometimes you just want to get your money in good. As CRAIerrday pointed out, when you first move up and are playing with people who don't know you, you shouldn't be bluffing anyway. (Side note: if I recall correctly, he and I have experience playing in the same game, though I still don't know who he is.) But also, another thing I think you'll notice is that as you move up, the raise sizes (and hence pot sizes) get smaller as multiples of the big blind. When I played 2/5 and 5/10, it would not be uncommon to see $35 preflop raises in both games, even though one had twice the big blind of the other. At 5/10, I would rarely see someone raise more than $50, or 5 big blinds, while at 2/5 I would see 6x or 7x raises frequently, and 8x+ were uncommon but not unheard of.
About the second bolded, in my experience the only time it is bad for people to see you as scared money is if you actually are.