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Fair enough.

I think trying to blast him off the pot with a larger check-raise represents enough strength that he'll be far more likely to lay it down, or to approach the rest of the hand more cautiously.

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Your check-minraise allows him to approach the hand cautiously without costing him much. You need to build a pot, and if he's going to fold, so be it. He doesn't have to re-raise you. He can look at the next card and figure out what to do with a min-raise. Raising more will force him to a test. You don't necessarily want a hand like AA sticking around with 5 outs against you, plus 3 more on the turn. TT is the worst, with 5 outs on the flop, plus an extra 11 with the Jack turn card. The mini-raise is the nearly the worst possible option (folding that flop is the worst)