A Powerful Pair of Skills

If you have a pair of Aces in your hand, and another one falls on the turn, you will probably be putting in the sort of bets that you hope somebody calls in the hopes of getting the poor saps at the table to add to a pot that will ultimately be in neat little stacks in front of you. Any poker book that talks about this sort of action should include that type of value betting in a chapter entitled "Duh". If in this situation you are thinking, "I hope they call my bets", and one of your opponents is looking at the King on the board like starving man eyeing a bucket of chicken, then you have mastered the concept of thin value betting.