A thought came to me today when playing. Should you raise aces less against weaker opponents to encourage action.

If you have player A. He will call your raises with hands like pocket pairs and suited connectors and not be prepared to go all in with anything less than 2 pair/trips or possibly a very big draw. He will fold AQ/AJ/KQ to any raise, and if hes playing a big pair or AK he will likely reraise preflop.

If your on a table with mainly these type of players you should a) raise Aces big or maybe b) leave.

Now Theoretical Player B. He will fold hands like AJ/KQ/KJ to a 8bb raise but will call a 3/4bb raise. If he flops any top pair he will go all in. Now it may become more profitable to make smaller raises with AA, as the times you pay off someone's trips having given correct odds, will be more than compensated for by the times you get paid off by some mug hitting a weak top pair.

Thoughts?

I'm not suggesting flat calling or min raising, however I have been raising to maybe 7bb+ with AA to remove implied odds of people calling with low pocket pairs (This is also endorsed by Deme and Eclipse), and was just questioning whether there are occasions where a 4bb raise against certain types of players will have higher long term expectation.

with 100bb stacks, you aren't removing implied odds with a 7bb raise.

if players are calling raises with crap, raise as much as they will call. You really need to raise over 15bb to negate implied odds (I am almost always gonna lose my stack with AA or any overpair, that is why I short buy).