In response to Clark's KJ post...

[scooby]

I feel like this is a pretty common occurance. Someone raises your big blind, and you call with a decent hand like KJ, and hit your top pair ok-kicker. What do people think the best way to play is against a normal 15/30 party player?

A few concerns:
1) You don't want them to fold an underpair
2) You want to go to showdown, but don't want to go crazy against a better hand
3) You want to maximize your profits.

I'm experimenting with a new line when I hit top pair that's an ace or king, and no draw is apparent (I think that's key...it's very different if there's a draw, since the opponent might [correctly] put you on an aggressively played draw:
my line:
check-call the flop and turn, checkraise the river. Playing so passively generally induces someone to think I have some extremely marginal holding and keep betting their holding to get me to fold, and a checkraise on the river is generally only going to be 3bet by a much stronger hand...it's hard for even AK to 3bet a river checkraise. It's also something that people feel like they almost have to call, unless they're an excellent player. Comments? Other lines?