Hold'em table

Open-raising 54s from the button for standard 2.5bb value and position leverage.

K2 offsuit plays poorly out of position against a button raise, with the big blind still to act.

J8 suited is a reasonable defend in the big blind against a 2.5x button open, getting 400 to 150 (about 2.7:1) with a suited hand that plays well postflop. A 3-bet with this hand would be too loose.

Jd8d on a 9-9-3 board has only jack-high with a backdoor flush draw, so it is a weak showdown hand. Checking as the out-of-position big blind against the preflop raiser controls the pot and keeps my bluff-catchers cheap.

As the preflop aggressor on a paired dry flop, a small continuation bet exerts pressure on broadway overcards while capitalizing on our open-ended straight draw.

Getting 725+175 into 175, about 4.1 to 1, so I need roughly 20% equity. J8 high on a 9-9-3 board has two overcards to the 9s and a backdoor flush draw, and a button c-bet range is wide, so calling is reasonable.

I have jack-high with an eight on a paired 9-9-3-5 board, so I have only weak showdown value and a small chance of improving. Checking keeps the pot small, and betting would mostly get called or raised by better hands. Seat 1 has bet the flop, so a check leaves me the option to call a small bet or fold.

Turn gave us a pair of fives for two pair (nines and fives). Checking back controls the pot and realizes our showdown value in position.

Board 9s 9h 3c 5d 6c: I have Jd 8d, which is jack-high and nearly worthless at showdown. The button checked back the turn, which caps its range at weak hands and marginal pairs. A half-pot bet of 450 could fold out its small pairs and ace-high, while checking would almost never win at showdown. I'm accepting the risk of a call or raise because the bet looks like a reasonable bluff.}

Our two pair of nines and fives with a low kicker is purely a bluff-catcher against the big blind's river lead. Given the flop call on a paired board, opponent's range contains many better value hands (trips, better two pair, straights) and insufficient bluffs to justify calling.

A9 suited is a strong button opening hand three-handed, so I raise to build the pot while retaining position.

2h Ts is a weak offsuit hand out of position against a button raise with the big blind still to act, so folding to the 200 needed to call is best.

J9o is slightly too weak to defend out of position against a 2.5x button open.

J9 offsuit on the button in a 3-handed game is marginal. Facing a call of 100 into 150, it is playable, but it is dominated often and plays poorly out of position postflop. I will fold to avoid a marginal spot.

Q5o is too weak to complete or raise profitably out of position from the small blind.

Opening from the button with K8o in a 3-handed game is standard for applying pressure and stealing blinds.

Four-deuce suited is too weak to defend from the small blind against a button raise with the big blind still to act.

Getting 350 into 100 (3.5:1) with a pocket pair in the big blind against a button min-raise; calling to see a flop and try to hit a set is clearly profitable. Chat is off so no message.

Pocket threes on a 9-4-Q board is a weak showdown-value hand against the button's preflop raise. Checking keeps the pot small and lets me see a cheap turn instead of building a pot I would rarely win.

C-betting one-third pot on a dry Queen-high board as the preflop raiser to fold out weak floats and take down the pot.

Pocket threes hold some showdown value on a 9-4-Q board, and the pot odds are good at 150 to win 600 against a small continuation bet. Calling keeps the price low without bloating the pot out of position.

Pocket threes are a weak showdown-value hand on a Q-K-9-4 board with two hearts. Checking keeps the pot small, since betting would mostly fold out worse hands and get called or raised by better ones.

Turned top pair with a weak kicker; checking behind controls the pot and allows us to realize showdown value or call a river bet.

Pocket threes on a K-Q-9-7-4 board is only a weak showdown hand. Seat_1 checked back the turn, which suggests a marginal hand, but a bet would mostly fold out worse and get called by better, so I check to showdown.

I have top pair with a weak kicker and sufficient showdown value to check back against villain's checking range.

K7 suited is a profitable button open in three-handed play. Raising to 2.5 big blinds applies pressure while keeping the pot manageable.

A8s is a reasonable hand against a button open in a 3-handed game. Calling 200 more gets decent pot odds, and the big blind still has to act, so I avoid a large 3-bet bluff-catch spot out of position.

Getting 4 to 1 pot odds closing preflop action with QJo makes calling clearly profitable.

Nut flush draw with an ace on a three-club board; a semi-bluff bet builds the pot and takes it down often against two opponents.

Holding second-kicker top pair with no club on a monotone flop, facing a 2/3-pot donk bet multiway with the preflop raiser still to act behind, makes this an easy fold due to reverse implied odds.

King-high with no club or meaningful draw is too weak to continue against a 500-chip bet on this monotone flop.

A7 offsuit on the button in a 3-handed game is a solid raising hand against two blinds. A small raise applies pressure and builds the pot with position.

Calling 200 more from the small blind with pocket fours to set mine 100bb deep against the button's open.

A6 suited has enough equity and playability to defend the big blind for 150 into a 600-chip pot, even against two opponents.

Holding a weak underpair out of position multiway on a broadway-heavy flop, checking is standard.

With ace-high and only backdoor draws in a three-way pot, I’ll check rather than bluff into two opponents.

Both opponents checked to me on a K-J-3 flop and I have ace-high with a backdoor flush draw, so a small bet on the button can win the pot now and gives me some equity if called.

I hold an underpair on a coordinated board of Jh-3c-Kc against a flop bet with another player yet to act behind me.

Ace-high has little chance to improve on this flop, and calling out of position against a bet is not worthwhile.