Hold'em table

QJs is a strong, playable button hand three-handed and benefits from taking initiative. A 2.5bb open applies pressure while retaining postflop flexibility.

Seven-five offsuit is too weak to call a button raise from the small blind, especially with the big blind still to act.

42o is too weak to defend out of position against a 2.5x button open, even getting 150 to win 400, because of poor equity and playability.

Pocket kings are a premium preflop hand. Raising to 300 builds the pot while keeping weaker hands in.

K9s is strong against a wide 3-handed button open. A 3-bet from the small blind avoids playing a bloated pot out of position with the big blind still to act, and it applies fold equity.

Q8 offsuit is too weak to continue from the big blind against an open and a large 3-bet, especially out of position.

Pocket kings are strong enough to four-bet for value against a three-handed blind re-raise. Raising to 3000 builds the pot while keeping worse hands able to continue.

I 3-bet K9s from the small blind as a bluff and the button 4-bet to 30bb, which usually means a strong range. Calling 19bb out of position with a dominated hand is unprofitable, so I fold.

QQ on the button is a premium hand, so I'm opening for value with a standard 2.5bb raise.

J9 suited has reasonable playability and pot odds against a button min-raise in a three-handed pot. Calling keeps weaker hands and avoids inflating the pot out of position.

Calling 150 into a 600-chip pot with suited connectors offers good pot odds and multiway potential.

With a weak overcard and a backdoor/heart draw on a paired flop in a three-way pot, checking is preferable to bloating the pot out of position.

With a weak gutshot on a paired, two-heart flop in a three-way pot, I prefer to check and see what the preflop raiser does.

QQ is an overpair on a paired, two-tone board after both players checked to us. A modest bet of about half the pot gets value from 8x, 4x, flush draws and weaker pairs, and protects against overcards.

With only a low flush draw and no made pair in a multiway pot, calling the flop bet is not attractive at this price. Folding avoids continuing with weak equity and potential reverse-implied-odds issues.

The gutshot and backdoor club draw give me enough potential to continue against this half-pot bet. I can reassess out of position on the turn.

I have an open-ended straight draw, but the paired, three-heart board makes a made straight less secure. Checking keeps the pot manageable and lets me respond to the button's turn action.

QQ with the Qh blocker and a flush redraw is still ahead of many hands that called the flop, such as Tx, 99/JJ, and weaker draws. A smaller bet of about 40% pot gets value and protection while keeping the price reasonable against flushes and trips.

The eight straight-making river cards do not provide enough equity to call 650 into this pot, especially with a paired board and three hearts reducing their reliability.

Q2 suited is too weak to open profitably on the button in this format, especially with no prior read information.

Pocket sevens are strong heads-up against a big blind range. Raising to 300 builds the pot and puts pressure on the blind.

Getting 2:1 in position against a wide small-blind steal range, J5o has enough equity and playability to defend by calling.

Pocket sevens have showdown value and a gutshot on this draw-heavy flop. A half-pot bet charges overcards and draws without committing too much against a nine.

Bottom pair with a jack kicker has enough equity against a half-pot c-bet from a wide SB range that includes many unpaired overcards. We need only 25% equity at these pot odds, so calling is better than folding or raising.

The king is a poor card for my pocket sevens, and after the flop call I have limited value to gain by betting. Checking keeps the pot manageable while preserving my showdown value.

Bottom pair has some showdown value but gets called only by better hands, and the villain's turn check caps their range. Checking back in position keeps the pot small and takes a free card.

Sevens have some showdown value against missed draws and weaker pairs, but a river bet is unlikely to get called by worse often enough.

Bottom pair has some showdown value against missed draws. Betting would mostly fold out worse hands and get called by better ones, so I'm checking back.

Q3 offsuit is too weak to open profitably from the button against two unknown blinds at this stack depth.

Blind vs blind, 87o is a standard raise from the small blind against a lone big blind. A 3x open applies pressure and gives us initiative.

QcTc is a strong suited broadway hand heads-up versus a small-blind raise, with good playability and favorable pot odds. Calling keeps weaker hands and bluffs in while avoiding unnecessary preflop variance.

The dry paired board favors the preflop raiser's range, so a small one-third-pot c-bet with this air should get plenty of folds cheaply. The hand also keeps some backdoor potential.

The small continuation bet offers favorable pot odds, and Q-high retains live overcard and backdoor straight possibilities in this heads-up pot.

The Q turn favors the preflop raiser's range, and 87-high has almost no showdown value. A barrel of about 55% pot can fold out the weak floats and underpairs the BB will often call the flop with.}

Top pair with a ten kicker is strong enough to continue against this moderate turn barrel in a heads-up pot. Calling keeps bluffs and worse made hands in while avoiding overcommitting versus a stronger queen or a five.

Eight-high has essentially no showdown value, so checking almost always loses. The overcard river gives me a credible third barrel to push out villain's weaker pairs like Jx and 5x, and this sizing needs roughly 42% folds to profit.

We have a bluff-catcher with a queen and need to win only about 29% against the river bet. The K is a credible scare card for missed overcards, so calling is preferable to folding this price.

T3 offsuit is too weak to open from the button in a 3-handed game with 100bb stacks, so folding is standard.

7-4 offsuit is a very weak heads-up blind hand and does not justify continuing even for the small completion.