Re: Min-raising
Matt Flynn had a post about it a while back if you want to search. As for doing it, I rarely do it and was just experimenting. It seems that sometimes min-raising allows you to generate good folding equity (and sometimes stealing) with less money than a 3.5x BB bet. Sometimes it "freezes" aggro blinds / buttons into NOT raising random hands - so if you want to see a cheap flop, you can min-raise instead of limping then calling when raised. I'm sure I'm missing some other benefits as well. If the blinds start getting annoyed at your constant min-raising, you may want to do it w/ a premium hand so you hope they play back at you at the wrong time. It just adds another pyschological dimension to preflop play if you want to try it. In general, I don't use min-raising much.
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