Should you respect annoying minumum PFR's

[Pocket Trips]

Thanks for all the helpful replies. This is just one of those things that drives me crazy at the tables and i have to resist typing into the chat box "THIS IS NOT LIMIT POKER", especially when u get 2 or more idiots who min raise 4 times before the flop.

I agree that it does not ALWAYS indicate a fish but in these $25 nl games, and even some of the $50 games, about 80% of the time it is as good as holding a sign that says "I'm a moran."

[Ghazban]

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I agree that it does not ALWAYS indicate a fish...

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I've never seen a non-donk minraise preflop in any game up to the 3/6 blind game on Party (and I only have limited experience in the 3/6 game, primarily I'm in the 1/2 and 2/4 games). You would not get yourself in trouble if you just assumed anybody who minraised preflop at small stakes was a donk. Now, figuring out exactly what kind of donk they are is a little different...

[Mackerel]

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I've never seen a non-donk minraise preflop in any game up to the 3/6 blind game on Party (and I only have limited experience in the 3/6 game, primarily I'm in the 1/2 and 2/4 games). You would not get yourself in trouble if you just assumed anybody who minraised preflop at small stakes was a donk.

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Hmmmm, this thread has me thinking...I never min-raise (and usually just treat them like limps), but maybe I'll start doing it occasionally for cheap advertising purposes.....

[Ghazban]

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I've never seen a non-donk minraise preflop in any game up to the 3/6 blind game on Party (and I only have limited experience in the 3/6 game, primarily I'm in the 1/2 and 2/4 games). You would not get yourself in trouble if you just assumed anybody who minraised preflop at small stakes was a donk.

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Hmmmm, this thread has me thinking...I never min-raise (and usually just treat them like limps), but maybe I'll start doing it occasionally for cheap advertising purposes.....

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It won't work. Anybody paying attention to the fact that you minraised at all will notice the rest of your play, too. Unless you're talking about playing like ass for several hands, including some minraising, you won't fool anybody.

[vulturesrow]

My basic rule of thumb with minraisers, especially those that I dont have a read on their hand range for the miniraise, is to treat it like a limp. It has worked out well for me and its true joy to stack off the guy who let you in cheap with his "tricky" minraise with AA.

[ryanghall]

Why would you type anything in the box and alert the bad player to what they are doing?

I *hate* it when other players do that.

[Pocket Trips]

I don't do it... but i want to ... that's why I said i have to resist doing it.. I try to never tap the glass