Hold'em table

A9 offsuit is a strong button open three-handed, with positional advantage and good blocker value. I raise to a standard sizing to pressure the blinds and build the pot when called.

Calling 200 more to see a flop with a suited connector in position is reasonable; I'll play the hand postflop rather than fold or overcommit preflop.

3-4 offsuit is too weak to defend the big blind against a button raise and small-blind call; poor equity realization out of position outweighs the pot odds.

I have a top-pair weak kicker on a paired board with a flush draw possible; checking lets me control pot size and see how seat_1 plays before committing more chips.

Betting the paired flop with ace-high leverages our preflop range advantage and can deny equity from unpaired overcards.

I have a pocket pair of tens, which has set potential on this board. Calling 200 to keep the pot manageable and see a cheap turn is better than raising and risking more chips with a marginal hand.

I have top pair with a strong kicker on a paired board, but the opponent's flop raise suggests a strong hand. Checking allows me to control pot size and potentially induce a bluff or see a cheap showdown.

A sizable turn continuation bet can fold out unpaired floats and some medium pocket pairs after the second paired board card. Our ace also provides useful showdown equity if called.

I have a pair of tens with a ten-high flush draw on a paired board. Calling 600 into a 1600 pot keeps me in the hand with good implied odds and leaves room to bluff or value bet on the river if I miss.

I hold the top pair with a flush draw that missed, and the board is paired with a possible full house for seat_1. Checking allows me to control the pot size and potentially induce a bluff or take a cheap showdown.

Ace-high has little showdown value, but the opponent called both flop and turn bets on this paired board. Checking avoids a costly bluff into a likely made hand.

Calling the 100 big blind with Jd Qs on the button is reasonable; I can see a flop cheaply and play postflop from position.

A9o is strong three-handed against a button limp, so I raise to isolate the weak limper and deny the big blind a free flop despite being out of position.

6-3 offsuit is far too weak to defend against a small-blind raise with another player already in the pot.

With JdQs on the button, I'm raising to isolate the small blind's preflop raise and take the initiative, leveraging position and a speculative hand against their likely range.

Button limp-reraise typically represents a premium trapping range that dominates A9o. Calling 550 out of position would realize equity poorly, so folding preserves the stack.

K9o on the button in 3-handed play is well above average and benefits from initiative and position, so raise to apply pressure on the blinds.

A9 offsuit is a marginal defend from the small blind versus a button raise with the big blind still to act. Folding avoids playing a dominated, out-of-position multiway pot.

With K-high offsuit and a 150 to call facing a 250 raise from the button, the pot odds and hand strength don't justify continuing; folding preserves my stack.

T6 offsuit is a weak button opening hand in this short-handed spot; folding avoids entering marginal pots.

My hand (Ad 2c) is weak and unsuited, and I'm out of position. Folding avoids losing chips with no equity.

With Q5s on the button facing a 100bb raise and 50bb SB, the hand is too weak to continue profitably. Folding preserves my 100bb stack for better spots.

J8o is comfortably ahead of a big blind's random range heads-up after the button fold, and completing for 50 into 150 gives a cheap flop out of position without bloating the pot with a marginal hand.

Check the big blind with 9c7d and realize equity heads-up rather than inflating the pot with a marginal hand.

Top pair with a flush draw on a wet two-spade board; betting for value and protection against worse pairs and draws.

With only nine-high and no meaningful immediate draw on a coordinated board, folding to the flop bet preserves chips.

5-9 offsuit is a weak hand even on the button in a 3-handed game, with poor equity and playability against the blinds. Folding avoids investing 100 chips with a dominated, disconnected holding.

Fold the very weak 4-2 offsuit from the small blind rather than complete out of position.