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This game is clearly profitable. Consider

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He leans a bit toward the calling station direction, so raising him and pushing him with moderate holdings, unless your bets are enormous, will lead to him calling you down with things like underpairs.

His min raises tend to provoke people to sense weakness and fire bluffs into him, which is how he makes money.

His big weakness is overpairs; if he happens to have an overpair, he pays off trips and two pair.

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Three big profit centers at work, here. The one that I think our hero has overlooked is the second one. You now know how the rest of the table misplays against min-raises. Therefore, you should be making min raises with your monsters, and let them fire into you, especially when the habitual min-raiser is not in the pot. In order to provide cover for this, try an occasional min-raise as a bluff, and be prepared to abandon to pressure, but do this even less than game theory would suggest (which is already pretty infrequently, for a min raise).

By the way, given points 1 and 3 from the quote, you should be pretty happy about calling the min raise preflop with any pair, whether or not you have company, and even whether or not you have position. In fact, if you don't have position, you'd rather be heads up with the guy and NOT have company. If he makes the bad calls you describe, you are clearly getting the implied odds you need to try for your set.

However, dump the KQ and AJ, unless you have position and everyone else has folded. You can't raise with these profitably, because he you know you are in trouble if he calls. Therefore, you can't afford to raise to isolate. If you only call and there are players left to act after you, you won't be happy if they call, too, because you will be playing out of position against them and you have practically no idea what they have. Finally, even if you call and get heads up, if you make TP3K, you can't really stand any pressure, anyway, so you are setting yourself up to win a little pot or lose a big one. So just pitch them preflop, unless, as I said, you have the button and everyone else has folded. Even then, play them carefully.