Hold'em table

Holding 32 offsuit on the button is well outside any reasonable opening range, making folding clearly optimal.

With the button folded, completing costs only 50 chips in a heads-up, rake-free pot. I can see a flop cheaply with 5-3 offsuit.

Button folded and the small blind just limped; J7 suited plays fine heads-up in position-less BB spot, and a raise against a limper with a weak range picks up the pot often while building a pot with a playable hand.

5-3 offsuit plays poorly against a big-blind raise, especially out of position. Folding avoids putting another 200 chips into a weak spot.

On the button, a minimum raise gives this suited hand a low-cost chance to win the blinds and retains position if called.

Q9o in the small blind facing a button min-raise with the big blind still to act is a marginal hand that plays poorly out of position; folding avoids a dominated, reverse-implied-odds spot.

42o has very low equity and poor playability out of position against a button open, making it an easy fold even getting good pot odds.

JTo on the button in a 3-handed game is a standard open; raising to 2.5bb takes initiative and plays well in position against the blinds.

J4o is a very weak unsuited holding out of position against a button raise, making it an easy fold.

K4 offsuit has enough equity to defend the big blind against a button raise to 2.5 big blinds, especially with the small blind out. Calling keeps the pot manageable out of position.

K-high with no immediate draw is too weak to bet into the preflop raiser; checking keeps the pot small.

Button open, BB called and checked on 5-7-9 rainbow. I hold JT with two overcards and a gutshot to a straight (8), giving decent equity; a small continuation bet takes down the pot often against the BB's wide calling range and keeps the price cheap when called.

King-high with no immediate draw is too weak to continue out of position against the flop bet.

Open-raising on the button with an Ace blocker to steal the blinds or play in position.

The small raise gives my suited connector a good price, and it plays well in a potentially multiway pot.

2d5s offsuit is one of the weakest starting hands; even getting 5:1 pot odds, it plays poorly out of position against two opponents in a raised pot, so folding is best.

Middle pair has showdown value, but betting out of position into the preflop raiser risks building a large pot with a vulnerable hand.

Check back bottom pair with top kicker to control the pot size and realize showdown value in position.

Two pair is strong enough to bet for value and protection, though the third spade makes a moderate size preferable.

Holding bottom pair with no flush draw on a very coordinated three-spade board, calling a substantial turn bet is unprofitable.

Pocket jacks are a strong button hand three-handed, so I raise for value and to take the initiative.

K4 offsuit in the small blind facing a 3x button open is a clear fold; it plays poorly out of position and is dominated by much of the opener's range.

Facing a 3bb button open, K3s is too weak to profitably defend out of position despite being suited.

A9 suited on the button in a 3-handed game is a clear open-raise; raising to 2.5bb builds a pot in position with a strong hand for this format.

J2o is far too weak to defend out of position against a button open.

A5 offsuit has enough equity to defend the big blind against a button raise at this price.

With ace-high on a dry paired flop, I prefer to check out of position and avoid building the pot without a made hand.

Paired dry board 7-3-3 favors the preflop raiser; a small c-bet with ace-high and a backdoor flush draw gets folds from many hands and keeps the pot small when called.

The small flop bet gives a good price to continue with ace-high on a dry board. Raising would risk too much against a range that can contain overpairs and trips.

Ace-high is a reasonable bluff-catcher on this board, but a bet is unlikely to get called by many worse hands. Checking keeps the pot manageable.

Board trips with ace kicker beats all unpaired holdings; a medium bet extracts thin value from high-card hands that share the trips and charges draws to a river pair that would counterfeit us. Villain's passive line makes 7x/pocket pairs less likely.

Ace-high beats many unpaired hands on this board, and the small turn bet gives me a reasonable price to bluff-catch. Raising would risk more against the pocket pairs and sevens that beat me.

I have the best possible kicker with the four threes on board. A small value bet may get called by a weaker kicker.

Board is quad threes, so my Ace kicker makes the absolute nuts; I can only win or chop. Raising to a size the opponent can call with a king/queen kicker or a pocket pair maximizes value without pricing out their calling range.

My ace is the highest possible kicker for the four threes on the board, so I have the nuts or a tie. Raising all-in maximizes value from any worse hand that calls.

Board is quad threes; my Ace kicker makes the absolute nuts (quads with ace kicker). Worst case is a chop against another ace, so calling the all-in is mandatory.