I'll begin this with a tip that it appears a frightening amount of people need to hear: min betting is worthless. It's a ticket to value town for any bad par or two over cards. If you want to use a feeler bet, by al means do so but that a good feel is two maybe three times the big blind until blinds are over the 100 chip mark, even then depending on the size of the stacks you're feeling out.
And this brings me to my amusing story. I in a tourney, for points no less meaning I'm already running loose and wild, and I have a good number of chips, the blinds are 150-300, so I'm feeling good, having fun. I'm in the big blind with 10-3 off folds to the guy one off the dealer who's handle is eluding me he min raises small blind folds I call. Flop comes 10-5-3 rainbow giving me a nice little two pair to play with. I check to see what the raiser will do, bets 800, I call. Turn comes another 3 so I have 3s full. I bet a respectable 1800 chips try and get the aggressor to fold and save himself some chips, he shoves over top of me for another 2500, I insta-call he shows pocket aces. He then proceeds to flood the chat complaining about how much of a donkey I am to have played 10-3 going on and on question how I made that preflop call.
Anyway I tell this story because it may amuse some of you more seasoned players and for those less experienced take it as a lesson. if you have a big hand raise big or don't complain when it gets beat. Now when you raise big and still get sucked out on, then by all means feel free to complain :-P
Axman
Excellent point, Spark.