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Twice last night I was in hands when I had just lost the hand before and hadn't reloaded yet so I was at about 50-60bb. One time I had AQs and the flop came Q94r and was min-raised by a big stack (semi-fish) . The next time I had opened QTo and called by another big stack but tighter player on a KQTtt board. I got it in on both circumstances and am thinking about the min raise in position. I don't recall ever seeing it done as a weak move? I remember Bart Hanson saying it was often a top pair-ish hand, but I think he may have meant when the villain was oop and was check/min-raising? I was just wondering what everyone thought.

Thanks!

I also posted the two specific hands, along with a few others.

Personally I'm a little wishy-washy with min raises myself. I absolutely cannot fold them because they usually give you great pot odds.

Lets say OTF it's a $40 pot, I lead out for 20 and get raised to 40. I usually level myself into "hey now I'm getting 5:1". And it seems more often then not it's a TP type hand, BUT you always have to be careful because a lot of people will do this with overs. Playing live you're going to run into many people that will limp/call, or just flat IP with big pairs.

. In my games at least it seems like when people have sets/2P type hands they're only raising on really wet boards, and even then they don't always raise.