[djoyce003]

the key thing is that you only get monster hands every so often, and you've got to win as much as is possible with them. You have to squeeze every ounce of profit that you can out of these few big hands in order to be a winning poker player. When you get a monster hand and get a villan that really likes his hand, you've got to do your best to get value....minraising doesn't do that. When he reraises, you know he really likes his hand and that you can probably get him to call a much larger raise than a minraise. It worked out ok here because if the money had gone in you would have lost, but in the long-run not taking advantage of these situations is a losing play.