It's about time we had this discussion

[Grunch]

I believe that the standard advice to raise 4x+1 is good advice, and nobody would be far from right to follow it. But of course there's no always in poker, and I also belive that raise sizes do not always have to be the same. We can employ a balancing strategy to remain unreadable, and leverage opportunities to get what we want in different situations.

For example, if we want to minraise 76s OTB for some reason, we can balance this by occasionally minraising AA OTB as well.

Developing a good balanacing strategy can be very difficult however, and I wouldn't blame anyonme for not wanting to bother. In those cases, just sticking to 4x+1 all the time is OK. I do that myself more often than not.