[sapsuckah]

In the spot you describe, are you calling the big stack's push?

If not, you're just wasting chips when he pushes. If you are, then I don't really see how the raises are fundamentally different.

So I guess the success of your bigger-raise move hinges on whether a big stack would be less likely to push when you open bigger. I personally think the impact it would have on his reraising range would be minimal, if any. And like I said earlier, I think he may even be more likely to push lighter if there's more dead money in the pot.

And no worries about the snap before. Been there.