I've never understood why people min-raise in NLHE. What are you trying to do, build the pot? Are you trying to scare someone off with your 2x's BB raise? I was at a table earlier that had min-raise-itis. Not only that, but people would min-raise and then call huge raises with (I'm assuming), crap. On the hand I'm about to show you I took advantage of a min-raise situation. If I took the pot down preflop, cool. On the flop? Even better. On the turn my hand was made and I knew that if I got a call, all the chips were coming towards me. I was ahead the entire way in this hand...

This is NL100. I had seen this guy buy a bunch of pots using this min-raise B.S. People would call, he'd raise almost any flop and take it down right then and there. Finally somebody stood up to him and took a huge chunk out of him.

BTW, depending on the game I will limp JJ from EP.

Ultimate George ($102.50)
Min-raise Retard ($159.65)

Cards Dealt to Ultimate George :Js: :Jh:

UTG calls $1, Ultimate George calls $1, Min-Raise retard raises to $2, CO calls $2, BB calls $2, UTG calls $2, Ultimate George raises to $13, Min-Raise Retard calls $13, CO folds, BB folds, UTG folds. Pot = $32.50

Flop :Qs: :Td:

Ultimate George raises $23, Min-Raise Retard calls $23. Pot = $78.50

Okay, so I flopped a OESD. The queen doesn't scare me much, but it puts a little worry in me. I'm repping it like the Q doesn't scare me, and will gladly rep the turn if it's a non-scare card (A or K).

Turn

Ultimate George raises $66.50 and is all-in, Min-Raise Retard calls $66.50. Pot = $211.50

River :Ah:

Ultimate George shows :Js: :Jh: for a straight, Queen high
Min-Raise Retard shows for two pair, 8's and 9's

Ultimate George wins $208.50 from the main pot.

So I got lucky to get paid off so huge on this hand...but seriously, what was this guy thinking? He can't think he's ahead preflop. On the flop? Okay, you've got a pair and a gutshot, but I'm representing a high pocket pair. Why call a 3/4 pot bet there? The turn card was a good one for me, it made my hand and "made" his hand. So I got paid off.

I dunno what I'm trying to say here...but min-raising is stupid. I can't think of one good reason to do it in NLHE. I understand why you'd want to build a pot preflop in LHE in certain situations, but I can't see this as a profitable move in a deep-stack NL game. Any thoughts?