Grinderella
Enthusiast
Silver Level
Hi all,
I'm a microstakes cash game grinder. I have noticed recently an increase in the use of 'Minraising' as a standard opening bet. Particularly from Regs in EP with PFR ranges between 1 and 5%. Last year and before that minraises were used with spec hands and draws to get cheap flops on passive tables.
But more recently these min bets are being used to induce 3bets which are then insta-4betted or flatted OOP. The (AA AK KK) limp re-raisers of old seem to have now switched to the min-raise 4bet line or just flatting before jamming the flop. This isn't just isolated pre-flop. I've been seeing a lot more min-raising with nutted ranges on the flop and turn. Regs are starting to include minraises in their bluffing tactics. They know that the image of the min-raise says "I have a hand which crushes yours and I am giving you excellent calling odds because I know that I am beating you. I want you to call". This is a big shift from the classic "Shut them out with a shove or a pot sized bet" mentality, that used to be the standard a few years ago.
Has anyone noticed this shift too? It's becoming so prevalent that I can now read monsters just by observing minraise frequency. What are your thoughts on this strategy? I think it's very exploitable for good observant regs.
I'm a microstakes cash game grinder. I have noticed recently an increase in the use of 'Minraising' as a standard opening bet. Particularly from Regs in EP with PFR ranges between 1 and 5%. Last year and before that minraises were used with spec hands and draws to get cheap flops on passive tables.
But more recently these min bets are being used to induce 3bets which are then insta-4betted or flatted OOP. The (AA AK KK) limp re-raisers of old seem to have now switched to the min-raise 4bet line or just flatting before jamming the flop. This isn't just isolated pre-flop. I've been seeing a lot more min-raising with nutted ranges on the flop and turn. Regs are starting to include minraises in their bluffing tactics. They know that the image of the min-raise says "I have a hand which crushes yours and I am giving you excellent calling odds because I know that I am beating you. I want you to call". This is a big shift from the classic "Shut them out with a shove or a pot sized bet" mentality, that used to be the standard a few years ago.
Has anyone noticed this shift too? It's becoming so prevalent that I can now read monsters just by observing minraise frequency. What are your thoughts on this strategy? I think it's very exploitable for good observant regs.
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