Re: Too tight around the bubble?
If your opponent is smart, I prefer raising all-in preflop because he's going to be as scared as you are of losing all his chips to a big stack unnecessarily and going out 4th. Usually, whoever moves in first gets to steal the blinds in this situation.
If your opponent isn't so smart, then I prefer a smaller raise, 2x to 4x the bb, although I usually just stick to 3x. This gives your opponent the ability to move in on you at will and force you to fold all sorts of good hands, but this is assuming your opponent doesn't take this sort of thing into consideration.
I'd rather take the chance of the other big stack waking up to kk or aa once then taking the chance of him trying a resteal because he knows I'm too smart to call him in this spot.
I think given what happened, folding the KJ hand was a no brainer, and probably the ATs hand unless you knew this guy thought reraising you here was 800 free chips.
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