Hold'em table

Nine-four offsuit is too weak to open profitably by default, even on the button. With no chips invested and no evidence the blinds overfold, folding is preferable.

Completing the small blind with K6o is cheap and closes preflop action unless BB raises; folding is too tight given pot odds, and raising OOP with a weak offsuit king is unnecessary.

Button folded, SB limped. 54s is a fine hand to see a free flop with in position-less BB; raising a limper with a speculative hand is marginal, so take the free flop.

With only king-high on a dry flop and no made hand or draw, checking controls the pot and avoids risking chips out of position.

5c4c on 2-8-T rainbow has only a gutshot (3) backdoor; SB limped and checked, pot is small. Checking back keeps the pot cheap in position-less spot; betting has some fold equity but checking is fine and avoids bloating with a weak draw.

K-high has minimal showdown value and no strong draw; checking controls the pot on a coordinated board.

Flush draw with nine outs on a board where the opponent has shown weakness by limping and checking twice; a semi-bluff bet takes down the small pot often and keeps equity when called.

I have only king-high with no real draw, and calling 150 into 350 with at best three live outs is not profitable. Folding avoids further losses.

65s has decent implied odds in position; calling 100 closes the action cheaply with the button.

Pocket eights in the small blind versus a button limper; raise for value and to isolate, as limp-calling would invite a multiway pot where mid pair plays poorly.

43 offsuit is too weak to defend against a 4bb raise with the button still to act. Poor equity realization makes calling unprofitable, and this hand is a poor bluff-raise candidate.

Facing a small-blind raise with 6-5 offsuit, my hand is too weak to continue profitably here, especially with no message window left this street.

On the button in a 3-handed game, 7s5s is a reasonable open-raise hand with suitedness and connectivity; raising to 2.5bb applies pressure on the blinds and plays well in position.

T2 suited is too weak to defend profitably from the small blind against a 2.5bb button raise, with the big blind still to act. Its limited playability and positional disadvantage favor folding.

Getting 150 to call into a 400 pot, J6o has enough equity against a button open to defend, and folding would surrender the big blind too easily.

Flopped top two pair on a draw-heavy board; betting for value and protection against flush draws.

Only a gutshot with backdoor spades facing a 73% pot donk bet; pot odds require ~30% equity and I have roughly 17%, with a club draw on board reducing implied odds. Fold.

54 offsuit is below a standard button opening range at 100bb and has poor equity realization against callers. With no evidence that the blinds overfold, folding is preferable to opening or limping.

With 6s7s in the small blind against only the big blind, raising to 300 applies pressure and builds a pot with a hand that has good playability if called.

K4o in the big blind getting 2:1 with position against a wide small-blind steal range; calling is a standard marginal defend while folding would be slightly overfolding.

Continuation bet on a dry board to take down the pot; we have some backdoor outs and want to fold out better hands.

K4o has only king-high on a dry paired board with no draw and out of position against an aggressive raiser; calling or bluff-raising is marginal and folding is the lowest-variance, solid play.

AJo is a strong hand on the button in a 3-handed game. I'll raise for value and take initiative.

KQo is well ahead of a button opening range 3-handed; 3-betting from the SB takes initiative, denies the BB a cheap flop, and avoids playing out of position in a bloated multiway pot.

94 suited is too weak to cold-call a 10bb three-bet, especially with the original raiser still to act. It also lacks useful blockers for a four-bet bluff.

AJo has enough equity to call the small blind's 3-bet in position, and 4-betting would likely isolate me against stronger ranges.

Top pair with a queen kicker on a K-high board with a heart flush draw; value bet about a third of the pot to charge draws and get called by worse kings, pairs, and draws while keeping stack-off decisions manageable.

Ace-high with no real draw on a king-high board against a preflop 3-bettor's flop lead; continuing would be too speculative.

9-6 offsuit on the button in a 3-handed game is a marginal hand; it's below a reasonable opening range and folding avoids playing a weak hand out of position against the blinds' potential 3-bets.

Completing costs only 50 into a 150-chip pot, and 64 suited has enough playability to continue blind versus blind. Limping keeps the pot small while out of position with a marginal hand.

With 2h3c in the big blind and no amount to call, checking is best because the hand is too weak to raise and folding would forfeit a free flop.

With six-high and only backdoor draws, this hand has little immediate equity on a connected board. Checking avoids building the pot out of position and preserves the chance to improve for free.

With bottom pair and a weak kicker on a coordinated board, checking controls the pot and avoids building a large pot against stronger hands. I can reevaluate on the turn.

Six-high has no meaningful draw or useful bluff blockers on this connected board. I prefer to check rather than invest in a low-equity bluff against a range that can readily continue.

I have only a weak pair of threes on a coordinated board, and with one opponent left there is no value in betting; checking controls the pot and gets to the river cheaply.

Six-high has almost no showdown value, and the big blind's checks on both earlier streets suggest a weak range. A 150-chip bluff attacks unpaired hands while leaving missed high-card draws unblocked.

Bottom pair with no kicker on a coordinated board; facing a river bet, I don't have enough equity to call profitably.