Min-raise is for noobs. It's the smoke rising from the fire of a huge hand.

Check Min-raise is even more noobish. I fold pair no draw all day to min-raise.

BUT

If a min raise comes from an advanced player I might stick around. I've seen alot of advanced players use min-raise against other advanced players. It's usually used as a semi-bluff. I've done it a lot myself, but NEVER against a fish.

Amazing how you can take control of a pot when you minraise an advanced player. Sometimes you'll take it down, othertimes you give yourself an opportunity to win it later should you miss.

The 1 time when this doesn't work though is when you pull that minraise semi-bluff crap on a made hand. 3 bet hits you in the face real face.

Min-raising...

I'm assuming that were talking about min-raising your bet on the flop not pre-flop. I agree with Wallace, but think it can be pretty player dependent. Just develop a read and go with it. 'Always' is probably not a helpful word in poker.

While on the subject of min-raising, at NL50 and lower, preflop, I generally weight min-raises UTG to strength and button min-raises as silly.

Watched an interesting MTT video on PokerSavvy+ yesterday dedicated to the subject of min-raising as a tourney strategy. I think it was the video from July 22.

Blah...enough about min-raising...I like to stay as far from it as possible.

Had about 4 different min raise positions yesterday and every single one of them was not strength!!!! I think they were more using it against me to see how strong i was... Won all 4 hands but do wonder on a couple of them if i could have extracted more money from them!!!

Originally Posted by Av8tor009

5) To build up the pot with a strong draw (OESFD, etc..) or the nuts... since I can make the same play with either, it is difficult for opponents to tell if I have a monster hand or if I'm simply drawing to one.

This is my favorite time to min-raise, but only with position. My trouble lately has been the spots I've picked with this play.

Seems the last few times I've min-raised with a big draw I've ran up against 2 pair or a set and watched a big 3bet get shoved back in my grill. That really blows. It's essentially the equivelent of getting caught bluffing, because depending on how deep you are, you either need to move in on a 4bet or fold.

the only time I believe a minraise is good play is if you are in early pos. after the flop with a very good hand that you do not want to get cracked (such as a nut/2nd nut straight). The minraise will get 1 or 2 of the opponents who havent acted yet to possibly fold and you will be pretty much guaranteed a call by the original raiser.

Originally Posted by bobbyleb89

the only time I believe a minraise is good play is if you are in early pos. after the flop with a very good hand that you do not want to get cracked (such as a nut/2nd nut straight). The minraise will get 1 or 2 of the opponents who havent acted yet to possibly fold and you will be pretty much guaranteed a call by the original raiser.

That is still a weak play. It gives you absolutely no information on the raiser. 9/10 they will flat call there and you let them to the turn.

Now when you bet the turn you get 1 of 2 results. You either bet just enough to keep them chasing and give them a cheap chance at cracking you or you make a real bet and they run out of this pot because the min-raise scared them off.

Absolutely not. I min raise my entire range which is very wide. I also find it to be very profitable as well.