No Limit Texas Hold'em : preflop all-in with AK & AQ ?

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Aiming to move up a limit myself eventually and a bit curious where these betting amounts come from? Can you walk me through this a bit clearer (it would help me get on the right track)?

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They are bigger than pot sized re-raises. In each case the pot is about $170 so in the one hand it is 194 (back to him) and in the other it is 215 back to him. Really, I just wanted to raise enough so that calling wasn't an option (because I'm out of position and these are bluffs). On the second hand I actually meant to make raise to about $270ish, but I forgot what gets typed in the window is not the raise amount, but rather the amount of the raise. Some people like smaller 4-bets (and I do to under some circumstances). Typically each re-raise is about 3x the last raise so a more typically progression would be 24-75-225.

Lucky