Hold'em table

Pocket sixes play well as a button open-raise; building the pot with position and applying pressure to the blinds.

T8 suited is too playable to fold to a wide button open, but calling OOP with the big blind behind is poor; a 3-bet applies pressure and avoids a squeezed multiway pot.

Facing a 3-bet to 900 with the original raiser still to act behind me, 98o is far too weak to call 800 more out of position; fold.

Small pocket pair facing a 3-bet; calling 600 to set-mine with good implied odds is better than folding, and 3-betting here just isolates a stronger range.

With ten-high, only weak backdoor draws and one overcard on a 9-high board, checking out of position controls the pot and avoids bluffing into a 3-bet caller's likely overpair/overcard range.

Small pair on a dry board heads-up; checking keeps the pot small and lets me evaluate villain's turn action with a marginal hand.

With an open-ended straight draw and opponent checking back the flop after calling a 3-bet, a turn semi-bluff has good fold equity and represents a strong 3-bet range.

Overpair of sixes on a dry board; seat_2 checked the flop then bet the turn, which looks more like a delayed stab than a strong hand. Calling 1200 into 3100 is cheap and keeps bluffs in line.

I made a jack-high straight on the river, but the third heart completes flushes. A small blocking value bet can get calls from sets and two pair that might check back, while limiting my loss and allowing a fold if raised by a flush.

My underpair of sixes is almost certainly behind after a 4-bet preflop and triple-barrel betting; folding to the river bet is cheapest.

6-7 suited on the button in a 3-handed game is a strong playable hand with position; raising pressures the blinds and builds a pot in position rather than limping.

A7s in the SB facing a 2.5x button open 3-handed is a good 3-bet candidate; it blocks aces, plays poorly as a flat out of position, and a 3-bet to 900 denies the BB and takes initiative.

T5 offsuit is dominated against a raise and a 3-bet; folding is clearly best.

67 suited has good playability and implied odds in position on the button against a small-blind 3-bet in 3-handed play; calling 650 into 1250 is preferable to folding or 4-bet bluffing.

Nut flush draw with ace overcard in a 3-bet pot as the preflop aggressor; a small c-bet (~1/3 pot) semi-bluffs with strong equity, denies equity, and keeps the pot manageable out of position.

With 6h7h on KcJc8d I have only backdoor flush and straight draws against a preflop 3-bettor who bet the flop, giving far less equity than the 650 call requires.

Pocket jacks on the button in a 3-handed game is a premium hand; open-raising to 3bb builds the pot in position and avoids giving the blinds a cheap flop.

T4 offsuit is far too weak to call a 3x raise out of position with two players still to act. Folding preserves chips for better spots.

Q9o has sufficient equity against a wide button open, needing only about 31% to call 200 into 450, and is too strong to fold from the big blind 3-handed.

Trip queens on a paired, draw-heavy board is strong for value and protection against spade and straight draws, so I lead for about two-thirds pot out of position.

JJ is an underpair on QQK but the BB donk bet of 450 into 650 only requires ~29% equity; versus a range including flush draws, JT/T9, and smaller pairs we have enough to peel once in position, planning to fold to further aggression on most turns.

Trip queens on Q-Q-K-A board is ahead of most flop calling hands like Kx, Ax and draws; betting charges spade and straight draws and gets value before the river.

Holding Js on an AKQ spade board gives us the effective nut flush draw (nobody can have a royal since we hold the Js) plus Broadway straight outs with any ten, roughly 12 outs. Price is ~27.5% and with implied odds against a villain who has 8300 behind, calling is justified; raising risks running into a made full house.

Board is Aces and Queens; my Queen makes Queens full of Aces, beating Kings and board play but losing to any Ace for Aces full. Betting only gets called by an Ace or a tying Queen, while checking preserves showdown value against worse hands and loses less versus an Ace.

Board plays AAQQK for us; we can only chop or lose at showdown. Villain's river check after barreling twice suggests a missed draw or small pair; a half-pot bet folds out chopping hands and wins the whole pot, while hands with A/K/Q would mostly have bet themselves.

I have queens full of aces, beating the board two pair, a king, or a straight; only an ace or pocket kings beat me. Getting about 3-to-1 on the call, that range is not strong enough to fold, and raising would only fold worse hands while being called by better.

AQs is strong on the button; a standard 3x raise builds the pot and applies pressure to both blinds.

8-4 offsuit has very poor equity against a button raise to 300, and calling from the small blind would leave me out of position with a weak, unconnected hand.

KTo in the big blind facing a 3x button open in 3-handed play is a clear defend; getting 450:200 pot odds with a hand that plays fine postflop, calling is better than folding, and 3-betting offsuit KT out of position isn't necessary.

KT high on A96 two-club board, out of position against the preflop raiser; no pair, no draw worth leading with. Check and see what the button does, likely folding to a bet unless it's small.

Top pair top kicker on A-high board; bet for value and protection against draws, keeping pot small enough to fold if resistance escalates.

K-high with only a gutshot-less backdoor on an A-high board facing a 450 bet into 650; no pair, no real draw, so folding is correct against a button opener's c-bet.

6-4 offsuit is a weak, gapped low hand even on the button in 3-handed play; folding avoids a negative-EV limp or open against the blinds.

8-2 offsuit is one of the worst starting hands; even getting 3:1 from the small blind, it plays poorly out of position against the big blind, so folding is the standard play.

7-2 suited is the worst class of hand even on the button in 3-handed play; folding avoids a -EV spot.