Quote Originally Posted by Irisheyes
It's nothing to do with reads or anything. Its a straight up pot odds related mistake. When you minraise you are offering him greater than 3:1 on his call to see a flop. This gives him mathematically correct odds to call here with lots of hands. Even with a low pocket pair (which is a 4:1 dog), based on implied odds it is correct for him to call your raise. Now I don't know about you but I like it when my opponents make mistakes at the poker table. I also like to help them make mathmaticly incorrect calls. So 3x his raise.
I really think it *is* based on reads here. I have the second best hand imagineable, so most likely I'm ahead. If he folds, I get nothing. Incorporating the blinds, my reraise was basically a 3/4-pot bet. Now unless you always overbet the pot on every street just to be safe, I really don't think you can straight out claim this to be a mistake.

If I'm pretty sure they'll call me anyway, ofcourse I'll raise harder.