Hold'em table

84o is far too weak to open on the button even 3-handed.

Pocket fives play well as a raise from the SB with only the BB left to act; building the pot now and taking initiative beats limping out of position.

K6 offsuit is too weak to continue out of position against a 3bb raise; folding avoids a dominated, low-playability spot.

On the button in 3-handed play, 97o is near the bottom of a wide stealing range; a 3x open applies pressure on the blinds and can take the 150-chip pot immediately.

A3o is too weak to continue from the small blind against a button open, especially out of position with the big blind still to act.

Nine-three suited is too weak to defend out of position against a 3x button open.

46o is too weak to call or raise from the button; folding avoids a dominated, low-playability hand.

In a blind versus blind spot after the button folded, A5o is strong enough to open-raise for value and steal equity. Raising to 3 bb puts pressure on the big blind.

J8s is too weak to continue facing a 3x raise while acting first post-flop without position; folding avoids leaking chips with a dominated holding.

Opening standard 2.5bb from the button with an offsuit Broadway ace.

54 offsuit is far too weak to call 200 more out of position against a button raise with the big blind still to act. Folding preserves chips for better spots.

QTs plays well enough in the big blind against a single button raise to 2.5bb, so calling 150 into a 400 pot is preferable to folding or bloating the pot with a 3-bet.

I flopped top two pair and am ahead of most of the button's opening range, so I bet about half pot for value while keeping weaker queens and draws in.

I have an overcard and a gutshot to the nut straight in position, getting good pot odds against the flop lead.

I have queens and tens on a king-high board, ahead of most one-pair hands and draws that called the flop. A roughly two-thirds-pot bet gets value while keeping worse hands in.

We turned the nut straight against an opponent who has shown strong interest by leading both flop and turn; raising builds the pot for maximum value and charges draws.

I have queens and tens on a king-high board and am getting about 3.8-to-1 to call the turn raise. Two pair is too strong to fold heads-up, but raising would mostly get called by kings and sets, so I call and reassess on the river.

I have queens and tens on a brick river and can get value from worse one-pair hands that raised the turn, so a modest bet is better than checking.

Holding the broadway straight gives us the absolute nuts with no possible flush or full house on the board. Going all-in maximizes value against opponent's strong range.

Ten-six offsuit from the button is a weak hand facing two players already in; folding is clearly best.

Pocket nines are well ahead of the big blind's range heads-up after the button folds, so I raise for value rather than just complete. A raise to 300 builds the pot while keeping the hand playable if called.

Defending big blind with A8o against a standard small blind raise, taking advantage of position postflop.

Pocket nines make two pair on a paired jack flop, but any jack or overpair is ahead and a bet mostly folds out worse. Checking controls the pot and keeps their weaker calling range in.

Ace-high has decent showdown value and checking behind controls the pot on a paired board.

I have jacks and nines on a paired board and the pot was checked on the flop, so a half-pot bet gets value from one-pair hands while keeping the price manageable if the queen improved the caller.

We hold Ace-high with no draw on a paired board containing a Jack and Queen. Calling a half-pot turn bet with just A8o is unprofitable.

Qs9s is suited and playable from the button in three-handed play, so a small open builds the pot with position rather than just calling.

T7o is far too weak to defend out of position against a button open.

KTo in the big blind has solid equity against a wide button open, and calling only 150 into a 400 pot is cheap. I'll keep the pot small out of position rather than fold a hand this strong relative to the required ~27% equity.

Top pair with a mediocre kicker out of position against the preflop raiser; a small bet charges straight draws like T9/J9 and extracts from worse kings and underpairs while keeping the pot manageable against AK/KQ.

Qs9s is a flush draw with enough equity and implied odds to continue against a half-pot lead; calling realizes that equity without bloating the pot while behind a king.

I have only queen-high and a gutshot on the turn, so checking behind is the best way to realize my limited equity cheaply.

I only hold a pair of kings with a ten kicker; checking is safe since a bet would likely only get called by better hands. If seat_3 bets, I'll decide then.

Queen-high missed the board and has no showdown value, but it also blocks some missed draws and does not have clear fold equity against a flop-calling range full of pairs. Checking back avoids spewing more chips into a spot where a bluff is unlikely to succeed often enough.