[Closed] Minraise

well first of all I'd suggest you to don't defend hands like 72o even if it's for just one more bet in the early stages, blind defending in the early stages is absolutely unnecessary because the early blinds are only 1.5% or 2% of your stack and defending especially with crap hands is not good. plus you don't hit that often and even if you hit you can't give yourself much implied odds because of the weakness the minraise shows or you're dominated by an overpair if someone wants to trap you. In general I'd say that minraises aren't very strong and most of the time somebody is trying to make an easy blind stealing attempt.
If you have seen a guy making standard 2.5x to 3xBB raises and he minraises all of a sudden he is most likely trapping. some guys (especially on the low limits) haven't even heard of raising to 3BB they just think "I wanna raise" and so they hit the button..

when it comes to the push/fold mode and someone that you have seen minraising before minraises another time you should treat him like a limper and push your strong hands anyway (given the right effective stack sizes to do that ofc). sometimes you will walk into a trap but in most cases the minraiser will fold, that's my personal experience. be aware of the raising patterns of your opponents and base your decision on it that's probably the best advice though.

Originally posted by Jim9137
6 players left. Hero is on the button with 8bb stack, holding A♥ T♥. There is a fold, and a 12bb stack minraises. It is folded to me. I chose to shove, because I felt my hand was strong.

Position of the minraiser is very important here, posting some hands would be the best thing to do.

Agreed about position.

In my expereince at 'my' limits, after miniraise from an early position, I usually expekt hands like AQ, AJ, KQ, sometimes KJ.

Later the position, weaker the hand i guess (after miniraise) Like Q10s, J10 K10 and something. It depends on the player, there are no rules about miniraising (as there are no in poker at all) its diffrent at every limit.

Hope you understand my poor English

Like you said it's very donk specific, some donks miniraise with weak hands others raise with good hands. But if you see a donk miniraising a lot you can conclude its his normal raise and you can treat it like a normal raise.