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A minraise can be a good thing. The ol' keep-the-sucker-in fish play can be a good play. But the circumstances must be right.

I.e: You hold AA in the BB and you have a 12BB stack. If someone raises your blind to 3*BB and you minraise, any hand that wants to call must pay 3*BB to win 15*BB (this includes the rest of your stack) No hands has the odds for that call (they only get to see three cards before committing their chips).

In this case villain's stack is to large for a minraise to be correct with AA. But it is not sure that villain is holding AA and thus your implied odds decreases (But if you flop TP stack sizes makes it awkward to fold as you mentioned). Actually I kind of like the BB's play because it screams fish-AA and this is a very good thing for him if he holds 42o.

Your job is to read your opponent and find out the strength of his hand and evaluate if you have implied odds and to find out if TP can be good. To do this you must find out how often he raises from the blinds, how often he minraises and what cards he if holding, how he plays his hands postflop...

You have to play poker...

In the situation you described I would fold and take a note, and then start watching this player more closely. Like Dannenman said: "Folding to a reraise is only a small mistake" [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
If he's pulling this crap on a regular basis I decide TP can be good and take it from there.