Hold'em table

43 offsuit is too weak to open profitably on the button against two unknown blinds. Folding avoids investing chips with poor equity and limited playability.

Q5o is a weak hand with poor equity, and folding avoids losing chips with little chance to improve against the blinds' range.

I have a suited connector with backdoor flush and straight potential. Calling 100 to see a flop is reasonable given the pot odds and my position on the button.

5c9c is a suited hand getting 250 to 50 (5-to-1) in a three-way pot, so completing the small blind is clearly profitable despite being out of position.

J8 suited plays reasonably well in a limped pot, but is not strong enough to build a large pot out of position against two opponents. Checking realizes its equity without risking additional chips.

I have 5c9c on a 2h-7d-6d board, which gives an open-ended straight draw (8 completes it, 4 gives a smaller one) with 8 clean outs. The pot is multiway but unraised, and I act first. A small bet of 200 builds the pot, can win it outright, and keeps me fine if I get called.

Calling keeps the pot manageable with a jack-high flush draw, two overcards, and backdoor straight potential. Raising into two opponents would risk isolating against stronger hands while folding out hands we want to keep in.

The board is a dry 2-7-6 with no obvious draws, and my Jh-Qs is a speculative hand that can improve. Calling keeps me in the pot at low cost while avoiding a big bluff against a player who already raised the flop.

I have 5c9c on a 2h 7d 6d Jc board, which gives an open-ended straight draw (needs an 8 or a 4... actually 5-6-7 with 8/9 gives 8 to make 5-9 straight, and 4 makes 4-7). The pot is 900 and both opponents just called the flop, so they look capped. A semi-bluff bet of 600 builds fold equity and keeps real equity if called.

Top pair plus a jack-high flush draw has enough equity to call 600 into 1500. Calling keeps weaker hands and draws in while avoiding a large pot against the bettor’s stronger value hands.

I have a gutshot straight draw to a 5 and backdoor flush potential, so calling keeps me in the hand without overcommitting on a dry board where seat 3's raise could be a bluff or a strong hand.

I have only jack-high with a missed draw. Two opponents called both the flop and turn bets, so a river bluff is unlikely to work, and I'll check.

Top pair with a weak kicker has useful showdown value, but betting into two opponents is unlikely to get enough calls from worse. Checking also avoids reopening the action against stronger hands after the multiway turn barrel.

The board is disconnected and I hold only a backdoor flush draw with no made hand, so I want to control the pot and avoid building a big bluff catcher. Checking lets me see a showdown cheaply and potentially induce a bluff from seat_3.

On the button in a 3-handed game, 9h4h is a marginal suited hand. Calling 100 to win a pot of 150 gets a decent price and I have position, so I'll see a flop rather than fold or raise.

AJs is strong against a button limping range and merits a value raise. Raising to 500 charges both opponents and compensates for playing out of position.

My hand (3c 5s) is weak and unsuited, and I face a 400 chip call to continue. Folding preserves my stack against a likely strong range from the raiser.

4h9h is a weak offsuit-ish hand; calling 400 more out of position against a small blind raise to 500 is marginal, and folding costs only the 100 already posted.

J8 offsuit is a reasonable button open three-handed. Raising to 2.25 big blinds pressures the blinds while keeping the investment modest with a marginal hand.

7c Kd is a weak offsuit hand facing a raise to 225 from the button; calling 175 more with only a King kicker is not profitable preflop.

Pocket threes in the big blind get 375-to-125 pot odds against a 2.25x button open, which is a profitable call with set-mining potential and a good price. A 3-bet is less attractive because the hand plays poorly when 4-bet.

I hold a low pocket pair on an ace-high flop, out of position against the preflop raiser. It is a weak showdown hand that I don't want to bloat the pot with, so I check and keep the pot small.

This dry ace-high flop favors my preflop raising range. A small continuation bet can profitably fold out many better unpaired hands while risking little.

A small pocket pair on an A-Q-5 board can still win at showdown. The button's 150 bet into a 500 pot is a small c-bet, so calling at about 3.3-to-1 is cheap, and raising would mostly get called or re-raised by better hands.

Pair of threes with a wheel-straight draw (any 2) is a marginal hand out of position. Checking controls the pot and keeps the draw cheap.

J-high has no meaningful draw, and the turn four improves parts of the big blind’s calling range. With poor bluffing blockers, checking back is preferable to investing in a second barrel.

Pocket threes make only a weak pair on a board with three diamonds and an ace. A bet would mostly be called by better hands and fold out worse ones, so I take the free showdown.

Jack-high has almost no showdown value, and the river completes draws I can credibly represent after checking the turn. A three-quarter-pot bluff pressures weak pairs and stronger missed hands to fold.

I only have a pair of threes on an A-Q-7-5-4 board with three diamonds, and the river bet of 600 into 800 looks strong after a check-check turn. I'm folding.

I have a weak offsuit hand (T6o) and the pot odds don't justify calling 100 to see a flop. Folding preserves my stack for better spots.

J4 offsuit is weak and out of position; the small blind has to call 50 more into a 150 pot, which is attractive pot odds, but the hand plays poorly postflop. Folding is a small loss, and a marginal call here is also reasonable.

8c7d is a decent suited-ish connector-style hand in 3-handed play on the button; calling 100 into a 250 pot gets a good price and keeps the pot small with position.

Despite the cheap completion, 5-3 offsuit has poor equity realization from the small blind and the big blind can still raise. Folding avoids investing further with a weak, easily dominated hand.

My hole cards are 2s 6h, a very weak hand. With seat_3 showing strength by calling the big blind and me being out of position, folding minimizes losses.