Preflop minraises at 5/10 NL

[ZeeJustin]

I've noticed a lot of players like to minraise preflop at the 1k NL on party. What range of hands does it generally mean? I wish there was a way to sort raises by size of the raise on pokertracker. These guys will do it all the time. They'll open for 20. They'll make it 20 after 2-3 limpers in MP. They'll even do it from the blinds. WTF?

[Foldarama_City]

Obviously there's going to be a huge range of hands they do it with but I notice a lot of players do it with small-medium pocket pairs.

[Prevaricator]

I dont see good players doing it a lot, and FWIW, I see them show down mostly stuff like small mid PPs, and stuff like QJs and A6s.

[captZEEbo1]

I've seen some people open min-raise AA or KK. I've never seen anyone min-raise AA or KK after anyone limped. I guess this is to try and get a few cold-callers then get some thinking they can pick up this pot by representing AA. Who knows...

I think people like the min raise after limpers b/c they have a weakish hand in late position that they don't want to invest TOO much with, but they'd like to:
a) have position if possible
b) not have anyone pot raise it behind them, because they want to see a flop
c) get the blinds out of the hand

edit: also anyone that min raises out of the blinds, I'd NEVER give them credit for any type of real hand. I see the minraise out of sb or bb with some hand they want to isolate 1 limper with. They basically want the cheapest way possible to represent strength preflop, and make their opponents think they MIGHT have AA.

[Prevaricator]

yeah that too. The min-open has a greater chance of being a big pair than min raising after someone else has entered the pot.

[piki]

Id say some of the time is to build the pot, other times with medium PP to give the table an opportunity to raise a hand they thought about playing slow, and least amount for acquiring position.

The question would be: Do min-raises ever get you to fold?

[AceHiStation]

I've seen several players use this in the 400NL rooms on party. Usually like people have already posted its a mid-pocketpair and sometimes a hand like KQs, KJs, JQs. I used to use this with my mid-pocketpairs in an effort to build a pot that if I flop my set, people will actually be interested in the pot. Obviously if someones in early position and minraises its a little different. I like to occasionally double it up with AA or KK trying to induce a reraise(which is fairly successful).

[THATWACOKID]

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Do min-raises ever get you to fold?

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Not me

Edit: Unless I planned on raising in position with trash

[creedofhubris]

I dump marginal offsuit hands (KT, QT, QJ, JT, AT) to a minraise. Unless I'm already in, of course.

I'll also drop my big blind if it's trash.

[Big_Jim]

Trash in the blinds and some hands that I would have completed in the SB (Kxs, Qxs, 36s) hit the muck.