Aces out of position want to bloat the pot and isolate. A 3-bet to roughly 11bb (4x the open plus a bit for being out of position) builds the pot and folds out the bottom of villain's range, leaving a stronger calling range in. Cold-calling AA with the BB still to act is a small leak.
Tags: preflop 3-bet value AA
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