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Old 11-13-2005, 07:25 PM
Rococo Rococo is offline
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Default Re: Miniraising preflop

Catlover,

You are completing ignoring stack sizes, which I think is a huge factor in determining whether a minraise preflop has any merit. In a super deep game, you can play for 12 hours and never see a minraise, and I think that the reason is obvious. In addition to narrowing/expanding the field, preflop raising affects pot size. Good players want to force their opponents to make a pot-committing decision within a defined number of "moves". This is an advanced skill, I grant you, but a critical one nonetheless.
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