[Nick C]

Crap, I hate these spots. Part of the reason that these flop min-raises are so annoying is that, while the play probably isn't really optimal very often, collectively the fish do employ it fairly well, so until you know what a specific fish's min-raises tend to mean, they're hard to deal with.

What I would do against this player, based on the read you have, is call and reevaluate on the turn, based on what falls and how much he bets. Frequently what's going to happen is that he's going to string me along with his goddamn J9o and I won't catch a K, 5 or a running pair. But at least I'll console myself that he gave me semi-reasonable odds with his small bets and I didn't really lose that much on the hand in the end.

(I mean, in SPR terms, he may end up only charging me an amount that would have seemed reasonable if that amount had been the effective remaining stacks on the flop. Or he may follow up his flop min-raise with a turn bomb that lets me make an agonizing fold.)