It's about time we had this discussion

[Dan Bitel]

Now I get the feeling that Matt's book coming out will cover this, but I think it would be cool to get a discussion going ourselves first:

Should we bet different amounts preflop depending on what hand we have?

The arguement for it seems pretty obvious: if we want value, why not bet an amount we will get on average x callers. If we want FE, why not raise a bit more? If we want to build the pot, why not raise a bit less?

The thing is, that we will still be pretty unreadable, just because villain will not know WHY we are raising bigger. At some tables we migt raise bigger with AA, b/c thats how we think we get value. At others, we will raise bigger with 67s, b/c thats how we think we get FE etc.

Now obviously I accept that one of the biggest problems with this is that for the 12 tabling meow chows (of which I admit I am one), this requires a lot more thought than pressing the pot button or using the bet pot script, but what do people think of the theoretical concept of it? And what do people think are some good ranges/hand groups?