Hold'em table

JTs is a strong playable button hand in three-handed action and benefits from taking initiative. I open to 2.5bb for pressure and value.

KQo from the small blind facing a button open in a 3-handed game is strong enough to 3-bet for value and to deny the big blind a cheap look; sizing to 10bb accounts for being out of position.

I have As9h on the BB with a min-raise to 1750 facing a 1000 raise; the hand is too weak to call or reraise, so I fold to preserve my stack.

TJs is strong enough to defend in position against the small blind's oversized 3-bet, with good postflop playability. Calling preserves flexibility rather than inflating the pot with a marginal 4-bet.

Top pair with a good kicker on a wet board in a 3-bet pot; a small c-bet gets value from worse kings, jacks, and draws while charging the flush and straight draws.

Call with middle pair and a gutshot straight draw in position; folding is too tight, while raising needlessly inflates the pot against a preflop 3-bettor.

Top pair with a good kicker, but the third heart completed many of the button's flop-calling draws. Checking controls the pot out of position and lets me bluff-catch.

With middle pair in a pot where the flop bet-call range contains many kings and flush draws, checking preserves showdown value and avoids being check-raised.

Top pair, good kicker, and villain checked back the turn, which caps their range. A small value bet should get called by Jx, pocket pairs and weaker Kx while keeping losses small against slowplayed flushes or trips.

The small river sizing after a turn check can include missed heart draws and weaker one-pair hands. Our jacks and fours beat those bluffs and weaker pairs, while a raise is unlikely to be called by worse.

AQo is a strong button open in 3-handed play; a standard 2.5bb raise builds the pot with a hand that is well ahead of both blinds' ranges.

My hand Jc6s is weak and unsuited, and facing a 250 raise from the button with only 200 to call, the pot odds and implied odds don't justify continuing. Folding preserves my stack for better spots.

QJs is a strong heads-up big blind defense versus a button open and benefits from applying preflop pressure. I use a value-oriented 3-bet size while out of position.

AQo on the button facing a BB 3-bet in 3-handed play is too strong to fold and plays well in position, while 4-betting mostly gets called or shoved on by better hands. Calling keeps their bluffs in and gives us position postflop.

A small continuation bet leverages the preflop range advantage on the ace-high board while retaining equity through a gutshot and backdoor diamonds.

Top pair with a strong kicker on a dry board against a 3-bettor's small c-bet; calling keeps their bluffs in and controls the pot against AK/sets.

With a marginal pair on an ace-high board after the flop call, checking controls the pot and preserves showdown value.

Top two pair on a rainbow board after the BB checked the turn; betting about two-thirds pot gets value from AK, AJ and weaker aces and denies equity to straight draws.

Top pair with a jack kicker is unlikely to be good against this large turn barrel after the preflop and flop action. Folding preserves chips against a range weighted toward aces, strong queens, and sets.

Holding 3c 8h on the button with no position advantage preflop, I'm folding to avoid playing a weak hand out of position against the blinds.

2h5h is a very weak blind-versus-big-blind holding and does not justify completing out of position.

J5 offsuit is a weak button open in this three-handed spot; folding avoids entering with a dominated, poorly connected hand.

In a blind-vs-blind spot after the button folded, 94o sits at the bottom of a small blind range, and playing it out of position against the big blind loses money. Folding costs only the 50 already posted.

J2 offsuit is too weak to open from the button in 3-handed play with two players left to act; folding is the standard play.

8s5h is a weak offsuit hand with no playability postflop. The small blind has already invested 50 and I only need to call 50 more, but the pot odds don't justify chasing with such a disconnected hand. Folding preserves my stack for better spots.

Calling the 100 big blind with QsAd on the button is reasonable; I have a playable hand and can see a flop without overcommitting. The pot is 150 and I have full stack depth, so a call keeps my options open.

The price is excellent to complete from the small blind in a limped three-way pot, and T6o retains enough realization potential despite being out of position.

K2 offsuit is weak; with two limpers, raising from the big blind is unlikely to take the pot down. Checking sees a free flop.

I will make a small value/protection bet with top pair on this coordinated multiway flop, targeting worse tens, fives, and draws while controlling pot size.

Small 1bb bet into a 3bb pot gives about 5:1, which is enough to continue with an overcard and backdoor straight and flush draws. Raising K-high into two opponents on a connected board is too loose.

I have top pair and can value-bet weaker tens, fives, and straight-draw hands while charging overcards. A modest sizing keeps the pot manageable against stronger Jx or two-pair holdings.

King-high with no real draw on the turn: one club only gives a backdoor, and no single river card completes a straight. Calling 250 into 750 against a bettor who led twice isn't profitable.