Hold'em table

J8 offsuit is strong enough to open on the button three-handed, where position helps offset its marginal strength.

Q2o is far too weak to defend from the small blind against a button open.

AK offsuit is a premium 3-bet from the big blind; raising to 800 applies pressure and builds the pot with strong equity.

J8 offsuit is too weak to defend against this three-bet, even with position.

Opening with Ace-King offsuit on the button is a standard value raise.

5-7 offsuit is too weak to defend out of position against a button raise; folding preserves chips.

QJo is strong enough to defend the big blind against a button raise, but calling avoids inflating the pot out of position with a hand that can be dominated.

With no pair or immediate straight or flush draw, I’ll check and avoid building the pot out of position against the preflop raiser.

I have top pair top kicker on a wet flop and bet around half pot for value and protection.

Q-high has no immediate draw on this flop. Out of position against the continuation bet, its limited backdoor equity is unlikely to justify a call.

Calling 100 (1bb) with a suited gapper on the button is a cheap speculative play with position, and I can fold easily to heavy postflop pressure.

Calling 50 into a 250-chip pot is inexpensive with a suited hand, even though it will be difficult to play out of position.

We are in the big blind facing two limpers with 8s3s. Checking is standard and lets us see a free flop.

With eight-high and no immediate draw in a three-way pot, betting has little value. Checking keeps the pot small.

I have an eight-high flush draw and gutshot straight draw; checking out of position to see what the button does.

Checked to me with bottom pair and a backdoor flush draw; a small bet charges draws and may take down the pot. I can fold if raised.

Eight-deuce has no pair or viable flush draw, and its backdoor straight potential is too weak to justify calling into a multiway pot.

We flopped a flush draw plus gutshot straight draw with 8s 3s on 5s 7h Qs. Getting 4 to 1 pot odds closing the action makes calling clearly profitable.

Check to the flop aggressor with a flush draw and gutshot straight draw, planning to see what they do on the turn.

I have middle pair with a flush draw but the turn check keeps the pot controlled; I'll take the free card and evaluate the river.

I missed my flush draw and hold only eight-high, but firing a river bluff into a player who bet the flop carries too much risk of being looked up.

I have a flush (hearts) on a paired board; after seat_2 checked the river, I bet for value and to build the pot with a strong hand.

I only have eight-high on a paired board and cannot beat any value hands or natural bluffing ranges.

54 offsuit is too weak to open from the button without a reason to expect the blinds to fold often.

43 offsuit is near the bottom of preflop holdings and plays poorly out of position, making an easy fold blind vs blind.

On the button 3-handed, K7o is a profitable open-raise to attack the blinds and utilize positional advantage.

9-6 offsuit is too weak to continue out of position against a button raise, especially with the big blind still to act. Folding avoids investing more chips with a low-equity hand.

A3 offsuit has enough equity to defend the big blind against a button min-raise, especially with the small blind's dead money in the pot.

Top and bottom two pair is strong on this draw-heavy flop. Betting about two-thirds of the pot gets value from aces and draws while charging diamond draws.

I completely missed the flop with Kh7s and have virtually no equity facing a donk bet into an Ace-high board.

A8o on the button in a 3-handed game is strong enough to open-raise for value and to attack the blinds. Making it 300 puts pressure on the small and big blind while keeping my risk reasonable.

K3 suited is too weak to continue from the small blind against a 3x button raise with the big blind still to act.

K7o is too weak to defend out of position against a 3x open from the button.