Hold'em table

JTs is a strong, highly playable button opening hand in three-handed play. I raise to build initiative and pressure the blinds.

Q8s from small blind facing a button raise is marginal and playing out of position, so I choose to preserve my stack.

3-6 offsuit is too weak to continue against a button open after the small blind folds, so folding saves chips.

Holding 7c4d offsuit, a very weak hand, and being first to act preflop on the button, folding is the best choice to preserve my stack.

Button folded, so this is heads-up versus the big blind. Ace-eight offsuit is strong enough to raise rather than limp, and a raise to 300 applies pressure while keeping the pot manageable.

Pocket threes have sufficient equity to defend the big blind against a small blind 3x open heads-up. Calling keeps their weaker opening range in while avoiding unnecessary variance.

Ace-high with no pair or draw on a dry flop; checking controls the pot against the big blind who called preflop.

I have a set on a coordinated board and should build the pot while charging diamond and straight draws. A substantial continuation bet can also get value from overpairs and top-pair hands.

Ace-eight has no pair and no draw on 7-3-6, so calling 450 into 1050 is unprofitable against a flop bet.

T4 offsuit is too weak to call or raise from the button against a live small blind and big blind; folding avoids a dominated, low-playability hand.

2-3 offsuit is too weak to defend from the small blind against the big blind, especially out of position.

Open the button with suited 9-high, which has good playability and benefits from initiative in a three-handed pot.

Q2s is too weak to call or raise from the small blind against a button open, especially with the big blind still to act, so folding is best.

Pocket sixes play well as a call against a button open, with enough pot odds to set-mine and realize equity heads-up.

I flopped a set of sixes on a king-high board with a flush draw, so I bet about three-quarters pot for value and to charge draws rather than give a free card.

Call with middle pair in position against a modest heads-up flop lead. Folding immediately is too tight given the price and likely continuation opportunities.

I have a set of sixes on a three-spade board. Betting about two-thirds pot gets value from kings and worse pairs while charging completed flushes less than a shove.

Top two pair is well ahead of many king-x holdings, pair-plus-draw hands, and spade draws. Raising charges the substantial drawing portion of the range while extracting value from worse made hands.

I have a set of sixes on a flush-draw board, well ahead of most of the opponent's raising range. I raise for value and protection rather than just call.

We have top two pair and are receiving roughly 3:1 pot odds. Villain can jam many strong one-spade draws and worse two-pair holdings, making a call preferable despite completed flushes being possible.

I have sixes full of kings, the nuts with both kings on the board, and only 2850 behind in a 14350 pot. Shoving extracts the maximum from any flush or two pair that calls.

Our two pair is far behind the strong value range implied by the turn escalation and river shove, including flushes, kings, full houses, and stronger nines. The pot odds do not justify a bluff-catch here.

T8o is a marginal hand from the button in a 3-handed game. Without reads, folding avoids playing a weak hand out of position preflop and preserves our stack for better opportunities.

Button folded, so this is heads-up versus the big blind. K7s is playable enough to raise for initiative rather than just complete.

K2 suited is too weak to defend against a small-blind raise when out of position, especially with the button folded.

Q5o is too weak and poorly connected to open from the button into two live blinds, so folding avoids a dominated spot.

7-2 offsuit is too weak to defend from the small blind heads-up without favorable conditions.