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[QUOTE="ChuckTs, post: 430186, member: 467"]
The difference is that in limit you don't have a choice. The optimum play for a holding of AA isn't minraising, it's raising more; enough to get good value from the hand, and enough to isolate the hand to 1 or 2 players. You have that choice in NLHE, but in LHE, you don't.  In limit, it is also coincidentally much harder to isolate a hand to 1 or 2 people than it is in NL - and I'm sure you can guess why...

DM's thread is more about min[I]raising[/I], and not min[I]betting[/I] - they are different.  I think what you're describing is more like a probe bet (a highly useful tool).   Say you're in a limped pot with 10/20 blinds.  5 people and 100 chips total in the pot.  You've got 66 and the board comes T72.  Everybody checks to you, and you throw out a 25-50 chip bet (aka a probe bet; usually 1/4 to 1/2 the pot) to gain some information, and hopefully take down the pot.  If you get a call that you feel is week, then maybe another bigger turn bet will win you the pot.   If you get check-raised, then you can dump your hand.  But with a 20 chip (minbet) bet, people will probably even call with overcards, or a gutshot.  Maybe someone with A2 calls, and where do you stand now?  Maybe he called with a 7, maybe a weak ten, maybe a draw.....who knows.  With a bigger bet, you can tell that he probably won't be drawing to overcards, nor will he have called with a deuce.   You won't really know where you stand in the hand with that tiny of a bet.

The way I see it, the point is that minraises (especially online) don't do any of the 3 objectives that DM mentioned, and raising at least 3BBs is definitely a better option.

There goes another ramble......kinda lost track there; hope it makes sense :)
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