Hold'em table

96 offsprit is at the bottom edge of a 3-handed button opening range. It plays poorly against blind defense and 3-bets, so folding is the disciplined choice.

Complete the small blind with an ace in a heads-up blind pot; folding for 50 is too tight.

Raising from the big blind with a suited connector to apply pressure and take the pot, while building value if called.

A4 offsuit is too weak to continue from the small blind versus a 3x big-blind raise in this heads-up pot.

Q2 offsuit is too weak to profitably enter against both blinds at this stack depth.

JTo is strong enough to raise from the small blind; a min-raise puts pressure on the big blind and often takes the pot preflop.

AJs is well ahead of a small blind's min-raise range when the button has folded, so a 3-bet for value while in position makes sense. Raising to 700 is a standard size.

JTs is strong enough to continue against a 3-bet, and I'm getting reasonable pot odds to see a flop in position relative to the aggressor's range. Calling keeps the pot manageable while preserving my stack for postflop play.

I flopped trips with a decent kicker and want to build the pot against overpairs and draws. A solid value bet puts pressure while keeping worse hands in.

We hold the nut flush draw with two overcards (AhJh on Th7hTd), and the donk bet is 900 into 1400. Calling keeps our equity, is in position, and keeps their bluffs in; raising isn't needed against possible trips.

We hold the nut flush on a paired board, so only a full house beats us. Betting about 75% of the pot gets value from weaker flushes, trips and draws while setting up a river shove.

Q2o is too weak to continue with from the button against two opponents; folding avoids wasting chips on a dominated hand.

JTo is a strong hand for a blind-vs-blind spot once the button folds, so raising to 3bb takes the initiative. That beats limping out of position.

Defend the big blind heads-up against a small blind min-raise with a suited king and reasonable playability.

The ace-high board favors my preflop raising range, so a small one-third-pot c-bet works well. My J-T has backdoor flush and straight draws to fall back on if called.

Kd8d has no made hand or club draw on an ace-high board, and the preflop raiser's continuation bet into the multiway pot is not a favorable defend.

Three-handed on the button, 75o is at the bottom of a wide stealing range. A small 2.5bb open pressures both blinds cheaply.

J6 offsuit is too weak to defend from the small blind against a button raise with the big blind still to act.

Q5o is weak but I'm getting good pot odds to defend the big blind against a button open; calling is better than folding or bloating the pot out of position.

We have a weak pair of queens with a poor kicker, and the board has a king and a flush draw. Checking out of position lets us see the opponent's action and keep the pot manageable.

The K-Q high board favors my button raising range, and 75o has almost no showdown value. A small c-bet of about a third of the pot can take it down against the big blind's many misses.

I have top pair with a weak kicker, so calling keeps the pot manageable while I see the turn. Folding is too weak given the favorable pot odds, but raising could isolate against stronger hands.

I have a weak top pair and am out of position against an aggressive opponent who has shown strength. Checking keeps the pot small and lets me see the turn action before committing more chips.

Seven-high with no real draw on a board where the big blind's flop check-call range still has plenty of Kx and Qx. Barreling again is unlikely to fold out enough hands, so I'll check and take the free river.

Our hand has decent showdown value as two pair, but betting would likely only get called by better hands or chops. Checking keeps the pot small and lets missed draws bluff.

With 7-high and essentially no showdown value, a bet is the only way to win. It can fold out missed diamond draws and weak pairs from a villain who checked twice and showed weakness.

7-high suited is too weak to profitably enter against both blinds at this stack depth.

Calling 50 completes the small blind with good pot odds heads-up; A2o is playable against a random big blind hand, and raising would just build a pot out of position with a weak ace.

64o is weak, so I'll take the free flop in the big blind against the small blind's limp. I'll play the flop in position.

Open-ended straight draw on a paired low board after the SB checked (as a timeout fallback, so it signals little); a small bet takes the pot down often and builds it when I hit the 2 or 7.

I have a gutshot to the wheel plus an ace overcard, and I'm getting 3:1 pot odds, so calling is cheap enough to realize my equity against a wide BB flop bet.

The paired board (3s-3d-5c-5h) makes a full house likely for my opponent. I have a vulnerable two pair with an Ace kicker, so I check to control the pot and see the river, since any bet could invite a raise that puts me in a tough spot.

This is a semi-bluff with an open-ended straight draw on a double-paired board. The bet can fold out overcards that called the flop, and I keep 8 outs if I get called.

8d3h is a weak offsuit hand preflop, and calling or raising would put more chips at risk with poor equity and positional disadvantage. Folding keeps losses minimal.

42o is one of the weakest hands, and out of position against the big blind it realizes its equity poorly. Even at 3:1 odds, folding is the simplest low-variance choice.