AA preflop considerations

I must be missing some of the correct thinking when you hold AA and either there's a raise in front of your or you get reraised after you've opened.

The big question I have is how much do you reraise?

To keep it simple, throw out reads. Say you've just sat down at a 25NL table with relatively even stacks-- none lower than $22 and none higher than $30. You post in the CO and get dealt AA.

If there's a standard $1 open from MP1 and it gets folded to you, how much do you reraise? Do you make your raise in relation to the current pot size or in relation to the original PF raise and # of callers (if any)?

Or if it's raised to $1 UTG and there are 2 cold callers. $3.60 in the pot. Make it $4 to go? This makes my head spin since with each call, the next to act gets better and better odds to call.

2nd situation:

You open raise to $1 UTG+2 with AA. Folded to MP3 who reraises to $2.5 and it gets folded to you. Reraising here basically defines your hand. You want action, but don't want to give him good odds. How much now (aside from going AI and hoping he's a donk who loves his KQs or pair of Queens or Jacks enough to call)?

If it's raised to $1 and then to you, make it $3 min.
If it's raised, then called, make it $3 plus $1 for each limper.

Make it $6 to go. Push if you have any reason to think he'll call.

Never min-reraise. You give the person too good of odds to play any 2 against you.

I reraise 3x from the blinds whenever I have AA and am faced with a PFR. If I am in position, oftentimes I will cold call, if I am sure we are heads up or 3 ways at most. If I have position on the PFR'er, but I am still in danger of being called behind (e.g. if I am in MP), I will reraise 3x.

I am a lot more proponent to cold call if the raiser is a tight and weak player AND I am in position. I will cold call and look for a low flop so I can stack JJ-KK.

You should be reraising 2-3x what's in the pot with aces. When you raise and are reraised, you want to throw down the hammer and your 3-bet should be at least 3x the reraise. Few people will reraise and fold, so get their money before the flop.

Another strategy to consider is the all-in initial raise with AA. This works well when you are at a table where you have seen a few preflop all-ins called and when you are in late position or the blinds with a lot of limpers. Also when there is an EP raise and several cold callers. Even if it is folded around after you push 2/3 of the time, the times you are called are gold. A critical thing in getting the most out of AA in NL is knowing how to get the most money possible in the pot preflop, because you know you have everyone dominated preflop.

There are 2 ideal situations for AA in NL. The first is getting it all in preflop, and the second is flopping the nut set or a flop of 3 of the same card (the best flop for AA).

I lost (or folded) SEVEN TIMES IN A ROW when my AA setted on the flop. Crazy.