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Big Jim,

Take a look at Phil Gordon's website, he's a bigger poker badass than all of us put together. He's done research at the mid stakes level to find out what the min-raise means, and for sure my poll is extremely limited but it converges in it's small degree on what he also found ("I am a doofus" hardly counts).

The large bet I mentioned was in terms of the pot, not in absolute terms. In my experience although again limited by sample size, min-raises tend to mean the nuts. If you're beat, find out sooner rather than later and move on to the next hand.