Andrew,

In eposide three, at around the 10 minute mark, you describe how open raise sizes should be a function of the pot size, which in turn means a function of the ante and blind sizes.  Then you offer an answer to the question “why do we therefore tend to sometimes 2.5-3x in the very early stages and tend towards minraise at the later stages?” and the answer is that stack sizes come into play, meaning that at the later stages, even though the pot is nice and huge, everyone tends to have significantly less BB in their stack to work with/everyone must protect their stacks more.  This makes sense, and you do continue to say that if stack sizes were not hugely different once antes are introduced, you would still open raise with sizing as a function of pot and ante sizes.   Do I have this all correct?

If so, my question is – is this a good example of what you describe:

Merge has a structure of “deepstack” turbos where  you start at 15/30 and stacks of 5000.  By the time you hit 50/100 blinds there is a 10 chip ante and that's like 20-25 minutes into the game, so lots of players have 50BB stacks.  At this stage, would you opt not to open raise to 200-220 and rather go for something like 250 or even 300 in certain positions?