One thing that I see with live a lot more than online at the same limits is that people will play more hands because they get bored. A hand in a live game takes quite a bit longer than a hand online, so with fewer hands per hour, if you are someone who it playing a tight aggr. strategy, you won't be playing too many hands in that hour. Someone who isn't accustomed to playing sit-n-wait has a problem with that because they came to the casino to gamble and make some money.
Just be aware that most of these players are there to have fun, so don't be a table captain, critique bad play, or be a douche. Play your cards and generally be a nice guy/gal. If you lose a big pot take it on the chin, say nice hand and move on. No need for sunglasses, hats, pokerstars shirts etc.
As for strategy, as some previous posters have said just play standard ABC poker, dont bluff anyone that is a station, and generally just play your big hands for value.
I'd add that you can play a lot more speculative hands generally, since most flops will be taken for $2. If you haven't played live before, I really can't explain to you the amount of limping that will occur. It's like nothing you've seen. So a lot of times you can limp 65s in early position, because most of the time you're going to go to the flop for that $2, and also get 5:1 or better immediate expressed odds with approximately 1,443,665,579:1 implied.
Hrm. Even at a full table I don't see myself getting 140 million times my limp. Maybe I don't understand implied odds preflop.
Some tables will let you limp. Know who at your table will call a big raise with what they'll limp with. This especially becomes helpful when you get a tell. If they limp for $2, you make it $9, and amateur looks at their hand again, makes a face, and calls you, either they're a damn fine actor and putting too much effort into disguising the strength of their hand, or they just called you with a bad hand.
When these people limp into the pot, know that you can raise them big and they'll call with less-than premium hands. This will pay off in the long run, especially since such a player is prone to have a short-stack in front of them and doesn't understand pot-odds and might fold their last 4 BBs so they don't have to call them into a pot of 24 BBs.
It's much easier to target players live, most of them are just out having a good time on the weekend, and while they might play in a weak homegame once a month, haven't ever considered online poker and are frankly expecting to lose the money.
This is especially true in touristy areas on weekends.
I guess.
I always felt that there was a difference between casino live games and home live games. From my experience ABC poker result in profits for home games while limping with implied odds are great for casino games. You can raise 5-6 bb utg and get 4 callers behind you at casinos. This should be of no surprise. So if you have AA or KK utg make it 8-10bb to play.