Originally Posted by KoRnholio

I found that chart a little confusing. Seems to be fairly solid to start out with though.

Generally your bread and butter money making hands are going to be top pair+good kicker type hands. Trouble hands in NL (KQ, KJ, QJ, etc) become profitable because the implied odds on drawing hands are reduced so drastically reduced by the betting limits. Still, you have to be selective preflop, and don't want to get into the trouble hands until middle position rolls around. Against a tight player's raise, just fold them.

You'll also have to play a lot more hands out of the blinds, because of the odds you are getting on a call. This is the biggest spot where player tendencies and psychology come into play. Preflop play in the other positions is a lot more straight forward.

Originally Posted by KoRnholio

1- looks good with no read. I really want to raise, but he may just call with an ace/worse boat, but cap quads. So we'd essentially be laying him 2-1 by reopening the betting.

2- I don't like the cold call, especially against an UTG raiser. As played call down is fine, though I might pop the flop to give bad odds to BB's likely overcards. Might make us able to save half a bet against an overpair if he goes for the call/check raise turn.

3- cbet the flop. as played I probably wtfcall the river since he is really only repping Kh, he'd have bet a flush, Q or 9 on the turn.

4- HH looks garbled a bit. Looks like you limped from UTG+1 after UTG limped? I'd raise to isolate him with very likely the best hand. As played a call on the turn is fine, try to bring along the 3rd player with your nut draw.

5- easy game These are the bread and butter hands where you catch the guy calling down light or with Ace-rag. He won't hit his kicker very often, and when he does, you only ever lose 1 extra BB.

6- J5o is a fold there for sure. I'd rather (and often would) call with 65o

7- Flopped trips I mix it up. I usually take the check-call/CR line, but on a board that dry, he pretty much knows you have 8x, 4x or a pp below 99. So we're hoping he hit that jack or has an overpair, which will still bet nearly always on the turn and show it down even after getting check-raised. If you have a read the guy won't fold AQ/AK (ie, always shows it down), then I'd rather check-raise the flop or donk bet the turn.