Value betting thin on the river

One of the hardest things in cash games for me is deciding when to go for a thin value bet on the river. Sometimes it feels like I’m just building the pot for my opponent’s stronger hands. How do you determine when a thin value bet is the right move?

Building the pot is a term, which is used for the flop and turn, because more streets of betting are still to come. On the river we can not build the pot, but we can value own ourselfes, if we bet for value and are not good more than 50% of the time when called. If the opponent is a calling station, you should go for thinner value, than you would against a nit.

Very learnfull already i an new on this site. From the netherlands i play at gg Poker.

Look at the player type of your opponent, if you think they will call light, go with thin value bets more often. In my opinion light value bets work pretty well in micro stakes cash games.