When would you min Raise?

[riceman]

I was playing in a buy-in tourney at Full Tilt yesterday when a guy on the button min raises me in the BB. Every one else folds so its an easy call for me no matter what I have. I have Q6 suited so naturally the flop comes 66T. I check, the guy goes all-in and I call his pocket A's. He gets no help and then starts to berate me for calling with Q6. I tried to explain the pot odds for me calling but he just doesn't buy it. I never just min raise. When, it ever, is it a good move to min raise?

[stepgen]

Originally Posted by riceman

I was playing in a buy-in tourney at Full Tilt yesterday when a guy on the button min raises me in the BB. Every one else folds so its an easy call for me no matter what I have. I have Q6 suited so naturally the flop comes 66T. I check, the guy goes all-in and I call his pocket A's. He gets no help and then starts to berate me for calling with Q6. I tried to explain the pot odds for me calling but he just doesn't buy it. I never just min raise. When, it ever, is it a good move to min raise?

i rarely if ever min raise as it just encourages what happened. He was looking action and it back fired.

[decker]

After the flop sometimes a min raise is ok to see where you are in the hand. For example, if someone makes a continuation bet you might min raise with, say, middle pair and sometimes the c-bettor will fold. If he makes a big re-raise, then you didn't lose too many chips if you fold. I'm not saying you should do this often, but depending on the player, it's not a bad move sometimes. Pre-flop you might min raise from the small blind when you have a good hand like A,K or A,A and actually don't care if you get called or raised, as the previous poster said-you want action. In your case, the A,A got burned, but many times a player with a hand like yours will call a 3X BB bet also. And sometimes you will get the action when your opponent hits the flop and makes his top pair but is still a big underdog to your aces. Finally, sometimes the min raise looks fishy, like the raiser wants a call because he has a monster, which can actually encourage a fold. As always in poker, depends depends depends...You gotta mix it up, so throwing in a min raise sometimes is fine.

[greywind50]

I min raise all the time with good hands and bad. If you don't know the strength of my hand; your folding because you want to, if you raise and I'm strong i'll call/reraise; if weak i'll cheaply fold. I can min raise in any and many different situations and win pots cheaply. Low risk, Low ball style.

[evoHouse]

I do min raise but not before the flop. it's tooo weak to be minraisng pre flop with pocket Aces it's tooo weak.... because its not valuable... and as you said - i'd call that raise with any two cards.
min raise post flop/on the turn is a different issue, stronger and more valuable.

[eberetta1]

One of my weakest tendencies is to minimum raise, but I do it when I want to know if anyone hit something on the flop or turn. On the pre-flop I usually 3 bet.

Now the best argument for a minimum raise is, I do it frequently to slow down the betting in omaha hi/lo when I do not yet have a good hand and I want to see the next card. If I do not bet another opponent is tempted to raise more than I would be comfy with, lots of times with my minimum raise, 75 percent of the time, they let it slide and just call me then I see the next card and hopefully it gave me that monster hand.