[MasterLJ]

That's the thing, you can watch otherwise competent players go on massive tilt because things like minraising and limping the button are looked down on so much that good players don't do it.

I semi-agree that min-raising pre doesn't do a lot, but to say it does nothing isn't accurate (imo obviously). If they are calling too much OOP that's just bad, if they aren't calling enough you are getting a cheap steal. If they start to play back, you've set yourself up to win bigger pots since you are IP. Basically everything they can do to counter your button limping and minraising can be counter exploited.

I also feel that minraising is an effective tool for extracting river value on flops like 4-straight or what not where most opponents aren't calling a 3-4x river raise, but will call a min-raise with 2 pair,TP, set, etc.