I read the conversation in the study group and agreed with all of it as well as what was said here.

Something I want to add though is that the small pre-flop bet size may have induced the raise by the BB. If the BB just calls it is pretty much a certainty that they are going to play a 6-way pot against some really wide ranges. I suppose we can take some info from the V’s decision to re-raise…
1. May be squeezing light since no one looks real committed
2. May have a premium pair since those are the hands that play the worse in a multi-way pot. 
3. Fast-playing AK

I think a larger 2-bet weights #1 to be a smaller percentage. Meaning, we look more interested in playing a big pot and a light squeeze is less likely to work. The BB’s raise is so large I don’t know how many AKs are in his range. I think it is too big to be a pure-iso. That is why i call it fast-playing instead of isolating. Still if the 2-bet is larger I think it should reduce the need to isolate making a 3-bet more value heavy.

I believe this is the second level and most people are between 2.5x-3x standard open still. A raise to 75 essentially just ignored the limpers. I don’t think I’d make it less than 150 at the low end. It is possible a raise to, say, 170 would have caused the CO to fold and the BB to just call (just one possible change in flop situation). If the BB still 3-bets it will have to be bigger to price you out and would be a more clear fold.

As played I think we are just set mining without the right odds. Even if a 9-high flop hits I don’t know if I’d feel real good about it.

…just my thinking today. 

theginger45 said
…I’d say villain’s raise sizing could be slightly weighted towards AK since it’s so big…

Interesting. I can see both sides of the weighting…

Towards Pairs: I was thinking the size would weight it more towards over-pairs since most people are scared to get too many callers and really want to play a big pot. In my mind the act of raising is already aggressive so it seems like a smaller increase in aggression to size it a bit bigger with QQ-AA where we really want to get it in on the flop or maybe the turn.

Towards AK: I can see the logic though that puts this strategically more toward AK…If V is squeezing to take it down, and called, the hand plays well post-flop. At this sizing I could see the risk of folding out everyone with QQ-AA and missing value.

WDYT? Mind adding some more insight to this?