Mixing Up your raises

[Sam T.]

Harrington is making a number of assumptions that don't hold true for most of us: First, his opponents are paying attention, many of ours are not, so any sort of deception is minimal at best. Second, since he plays the same people all the time, he has to vary his raises not only over the course of a particular session, but over multiple tournaments. Again, we don't usually have that problem.

As for the use of the min-raise, IMO the only time it is a good idea is when the blinds are high enough that simply calling it would tie your opponents to the pot. In this situation, the message is the same whether you raise 2, 3 or 5BB: "If you call this bet, you are playing for your stack."

I don't know if this makes sense...