One of the best things you can do is learn to push thin value on the river. This was something I had a hard time with when I first started live play. Spew and pushing thin value are different things which I think with some experience you'll be able to conquer.
We know that villains in these type of games will call down light and have a hard time giving credit for hands bigger than theirs. We can usually find a few good spots to raise or value bet in these games that we couldn't find against solid TAG's online.
I'll give an example of a hand that I played a few months ago in Biloxi.
Hero was in the BB with K
Q
Folds around to CO who makes it $9
Folds to me, I call.
Flop comes 5
6
Q
I check
Villain fires $15
I call
Pot $34
Turn J
I lead for $25
Villain thinks and calls
River 2
At this point I wasn't really worried about the spades and I figured villain might have some other type of Q. I was debating whether to check / call or bet / fold but I decided to check call even if I was initially giving up some value.
After I checked villain bet out $25 which was quite small in relation to the pot. At this point I pegged him for some type of jack that he picked up after Cbetting the flop and hit it on the turn. I decided to make a very thin value raise to $70 and he snap called with AJ. I was initially giving up some value by not going for a value bet but by pushing thin value in a spot villain thought I might be bluffing I was able to make much more on the river than I would by just value betting.
This was just one example of how you can sometimes push thin value, even with TPGK.
Last edited by mercuryPoison; 09-05-2010 at 08:01 PM.