Hold'em table

J9o is a standard button open in 3-handed play, so I'm raising to 2.5bb to take the initiative against both blinds.

Defend the small blind with K9 suited-equivalent strength against a small button open in a three-handed pot, keeping weaker hands and dominated holdings in.

The small blind's call gives me favorable pot odds to see a flop with a suited hand. I'll call rather than build a larger pot with 5♣2♣.

With a king-high heart draw and an overcard on this coordinated multiway board, checking preserves flexibility and avoids bloating the pot out of position.

Bottom pair and a gutshot have some showdown value, but this is a multiway pot on a coordinated board. Checking avoids building a pot with a weak hand.

J-high with only backdoor draws on a connected 4-5-6 board that favors both blinds' calling ranges; in a three-way pot, checking back to take a free card is the best option.

Betting our king-high heart draw applies pressure to two capped checking ranges while retaining strong flush equity when called.

Bottom two pair is strong enough to continue against this turn bet, but the connected board makes a raise risky, especially with another player still to act.

I have a 9-high heart flush draw, and calling 500 into 2250 needs about 22% equity. My roughly 20% chance of hitting plus implied odds on the river makes a call reasonable, while raising multiway with no made hand is too loose.

The board makes a seven-high straight for us, but any opponent holding an 8 has a higher straight. Checking realizes our showdown value without risking a bet into a better hand.

My two pair is weak on this four-to-a-straight board, especially against two opponents. Checking avoids a thin value bet that could be raised by a straight.

Jack-high has almost no showdown value, and both opponents checked a river where any 3 or 8 makes a straight on 4-5-6-7. Betting two-thirds of the pot represents the straight and can fold out their pairs and missed heart draws.

The connected board makes a river bet likely to represent at least a straight, while K-high has no pair or meaningful draw completed. Folding avoids calling with essentially no showdown value.

Two pair beats overpairs, single-pair value bets, and missed heart draws. Straights are possible, but the pot odds make calling preferable to folding.

Pocket fours are a reasonable button open in a three-handed game. Raising to 3bb builds initiative while limiting exposure with a small pair.

Calling 250 with a small pair keeps the pot manageable and offers a chance to win a larger pot if I flop a set.

Getting 3.5:1 in the big blind with a suited-less connector in a multiway pot. Calling closes the action and the hand has good playability, so a call is profitable.

With a small pocket pair on a paired, two-spade flop, I have some showdown value but little reason to build a pot out of position against two opponents.

I have 9-high with a gutshot to the 6 on a paired low board, out of position in a three-way pot, and the preflop raiser is still to act. Checking keeps the pot small, and I can decide on the turn after seeing the button's action.

I have a flopped full house on this paired board. A substantial value bet can be called by trips, weaker full houses, and pocket pairs.

Pocket threes are a weak underpair on this paired, two-spade flop. Facing a bet with another player still to act, calling is unlikely to be profitable.

98 offsuit has no pair and no real draw on 4-5-5, so it has too little equity against the button's continuation bet. The call needs about 29% equity, so folding is best.

J4 offsuit is playable as a button open three-handed, where position helps compensate for its weak kicker. A 2.5-big-blind raise gives the blinds a chance to fold without committing much of the stack.

A8o in the small blind facing a button open to 2.5bb, with the big blind still to act, is dominated often and plays poorly out of position. A cold call is marginal and a 3-bet with it is thin, so folding is fine.

J9 offsuit has sufficient equity to defend the big blind against a button min-raise, especially heads-up. Calling preserves positional disadvantage without inflating the pot.

Check the open-ended straight draw from out of position, preserving flexibility to respond to a button continuation bet.

This dry flop is suitable for a small continuation bet. With only jack-high, I benefit from folding out some of the big blind's unpaired hands.

We have an open-ended straight draw with two overcards to the board, giving enough equity to continue versus this small continuation bet.

We have only jack-high with no meaningful made draw on this ace turn. Checking preserves equity and avoids bluffing into the preflop aggressor after they continued on the flop.

The ace favors my preflop-raising range and gives me a credible second barrel. Betting about two-thirds pot can pressure the blind's weaker flop calls.

With only a gutshot on a rainbow board and no made pair, the turn bet does not offer sufficient pot odds against this continued aggression.

In 3-handed play, 87o on the button is a standard open-raise, and it keeps the initiative against both blinds.

A4 offsuit is too weak to defend the small blind against a button open with the big blind still behind.

Pocket nines are strong against a button opening range. Raising from the big blind builds value and avoids playing a vulnerable pair out of position in a small pot.

87o is too weak to continue against a 4x 3-bet from the big blind, even with position. Calling 750 into a 2050 pot would need too much equity against a strong range.

Js9c is a strong enough suited connector-like button hand to open in a three-handed game. Raising applies pressure and captures initiative.

T5 offsuit is too weak to defend the small blind against a button raise, especially with the big blind still to act.

K9o in the big blind against a 2.5x button open in a 3-handed game is a clear defend at these pot odds (150 to win 400). Calling is preferable to 3-betting.

K-high with no pair on an A66 board that heavily favors the button's raising range; checking keeps the pot small and lets me evaluate their action out of position.

As the preflop raiser, I retain a strong range advantage on this paired ace-high board. A small continuation bet can fold out unpaired hands efficiently while risking little.

The button bet small (200 into 550) on a dry A66 board, so I'm getting great odds. K9 has a backdoor, and it can beat bluffs and weak pairs from a wide button range, so calling to realize equity beats folding.

K-high on a paired ace board has little showdown value and bluffing into a button c-bettor on the turn is marginal, so I'll check and decide based on their action.

As the preflop raiser, I can continue representing a strong ace or overpair after the checked turn. J-high has little showdown value, so a substantial barrel can fold out weaker pairs and missed floats.

King-high with no draw on an A-6-6-4 board, facing a second barrel of 600 into 950. The button's range is full of aces and sixes, so there's not enough equity to continue, and a bluff-raise is unlikely to fold out enough hands.

K9 suited is a strong button opening hand three-handed, so I raise to build the pot in position.

K3 offsuit from the small blind facing a button open to 2.5bb is too weak to call out of position with the big blind still to act behind me. It's too weak to 3-bet profitably too, so folding is best.

6-2 offsuit is far too weak to defend against a button open, especially out of position heads-up.