Adding the minclick to my repatoire?
Broad question but do you employ the minclick? I used to think it was purely fish that do this with QQ+ but now I'm wondering if its a valid tactic especially preflop. Hands that you normally 3-bet IP like ATs or KQo that want to get value but can easily fold to a 4-bet?
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I don't usually do it but it can be fine. It is solver approved sometimes. Esp in 3bet and 4bet pots, either a min raise or slightly bigger, when the SPR is already low on the flop. It offers a few things. Very good price for villain to call, and leaves the SPR a little higher for turn and river, to give us a little more fuel to either have or represent a polar range on turn and river. It allows us to have bluffs on turn and river thst we might not otherwise be able to have because the SPR gets too low and you end up having like, less than half pot on turn and less than half pot on river to get stacks in.
I wouldn't recommend it when you are a lot deeper, like when you are 100+bb deep in a single raised pot heads up.
In your case, I would just stick to trying to play solid poker.
I don't usually do it but it can be fine. It is solver approved sometimes. Esp in 3bet and 4bet pots, either a min raise or slightly bigger, when the SPR is already low on the flop. It offers a few things. Very good price for villain to call, and leaves the SPR a little higher for turn and river, to give us a little more fuel to either have or represent a polar range on turn and river. It allows us to have bluffs on turn and river thst
Your posts are always spot on. Thank you.
I can only remember seeing one min-click pre, and it was from a guy 4B'ing KK in the BB, over a couple limps, a BTN raise, and a SB 3B. He was just trying to ISO and get heads up with the SB, but in retrospect, I don't think it was a good play, because the sizing doesn't really fold out enough hands to define opponents' ranges.
I think it makes more sense as a play in unusual situations, like when we have strong but not nutted hands, and an opponent donks into us. For example, I recently flopped top 2P on a wet board (876ddx), in a multi-way pot, as one of the pre-flop callers. I donked out, MP called, and the PFR in LP jammed, with KK. I couldn't get my money in fast enough.
If he'd just min-clicked it, that would have put me in a weird spot, not sure what to make of it. He could have T9 for a straight or a set. I don't want to flat call and invite MP to come along with his draws, but I don't really love 3B'ing, either. I'm not folding, but I'm probably checking most turns.
The only time I ever use the min-raise is a spot no one here has mentioned yet: on the river. I try it sometimes when I have a very strong hand and I believe my opponent to be betting with a hand that they intend to fold to a raise, but then get priced in by the min-raise and decide they have to see showdown. Even then I will sometimes go very slightly bigger than a literal min-raise. But I don’t really do it before the river.
Broad question but do you employ the minclick? I used to think it was purely fish that do this with QQ+ but now I'm wondering if its a valid tactic especially preflop. Hands that you normally 3-bet IP like ATs or KQo that want to get value but can easily fold to a 4-bet?
The only place I can see it being beneficial is if you use it against a good player and they think you're new. It's typically a real sign of strength, but plenty of people don't realize that.
