Preface
I am 21 years old, have played live poker twice. Have been studying (reading Sklansky, Annie Duke (is this bad?), Ed Miller) and watching hand analysis from card runners and doug polk mostly.
Playing in Atlantic City (Borgata) this Saturday and sat down at a 1/2 table around 11:00pm.

Hand 1

Villain is Old Man with a Coffee. Haven't seen him get involved in a lot of pots. Has around $300 behind

Hero has A 4 in SB with around $100
Folds around to Hero
Hero opens to 12
Villain calls in BB

Flop comes K 7 7
Hero check, Villain check

Turn

9

Board is: K 7 7 9
Hero bet 15 (is this bet too big considering pot is $24), Villain calls

River

Q

Board is: K 7 7 9 Q

Hero shoves all in for around $75

Villain snap calls with K K

Did I play this hand incorrectly? I think I should probably size smaller on the turn but I don't think my flop check is that bad (how often should I be betting the flop?)
I mean I think I'm getting stacked no matter what against this exact runout and villain's hand but wanted to hear your opinions. Thanks.


Hand 2 (after rebuying)

Straddle pot ($4)
Raise to $12 from 35 y/o white dude in MP, seems like a good reg? (honestly not that good at telling good from bad yet) with $400 behind.

Folds to Hero on the button with A 10 and about $180 behind

Hero 3-bet to $25 (was getting really ****ty cards for 90 minutes and wanted to play poker dammit )
Folds to MP raiser who calls

Flop

9 Q J Pot ($57)

Villain bets $15
Hero calls

Turn

J Pot ($87)

Board is 9 Q J J
Villain bets $40
Hero calls

River

K Pot ($167)

Board is 9 Q J J K

Villain bet $75
Hero moves all in for $100 more

Villain calls shows K J with the full house

I don't think this is really a cooler just a poorly played hand by me. Is the reraise to $25 a good idea (my thought was that I block a lot of his nutted hands)?
I don't think there are many hands that I beat (AA, QQ reraise pre). Jack Ten suited maybe?
From my very primitive analysis I probably should have folded to the turn bet.

Let me know your thoughts. Sorry if this is a standard snap fold, just want to learn.

Hand #1:

V is never folding AK, maybe KQ, or very rarely A7s here. I don't think V gets to the river with QQ- ever, except for 77 obv. You also have a chance of flush over flush. You pretty much just caught him at the top of his range.

Thant being said, 50BB effective is probably too short to be playing AXs, esp from EP.

Hand 1 seems fine. I'd probably c bet flop against an old man and expect a lot of folds. You're turn sizing seems fine and you can't fold with $100 stacks when you hit the nut flush.

Hand 2 - I hate you're 3-bet sizing pre. In a live game,3-betting ATo is a bluff so size bigger to get folds. When you flop the OESD with the Ace making it nutted Plus Backdoor flush outs, I'd raise V's small flop bet. Assuming you started $180 effective I'd be tempted to shove. Maximize fold equity. If V folds his one pair hands we're printing money. If he calls we probably have 40% v his range and sometimes are freerolling Tx

You'd really fold A4s when it folds to you in the small blind? This would never happen in my game because it never folds to the SB and if it did I would chop, but in an alternative universe I always would raise A4s here.

Even blind vs blind? Isn't SB opening range supposed to be pretty wide? (im a noob)

Hand 1: I generally just chop BvB without looking. Live rake structure makes it really difficult to win very much overall in these spots. Postflop seems ok, you just got coolered

Hand 2 : Hate the 3bet. The problem is in the size, villain will call with any hand he opened with. Against lots of 1/2 opponents you should just fold this when they raise from MP. On the turn you're in a bad situation and should just fold. Your implied odds aren't going to be very good since improving will put 4 to a straight on the board. You can also be drawing thin or dead or drawing to tainted/chopping outs, like when up against JT, KT, KJ, 99, QJ, QT.

Hand 1 is ok, you could also bet very small OTF, like 1/3 pot, just to deny him equity or get a little value with your ace high.

Hand 2 the threebet is miles too small, should generally be at least 3x their raise. Turn you have to fold, even if all your outs are 100% good it's marginal, with the paired board it's too dangerous to draw at a marginal draw.

First hand I would call a cooler.
Second hand your moving in on the river is not good. All the full house combo's are in play. You essentially have a bluff catcher.

hand 1 always chop the blinds at 1/2 you should never see a flop here. the rake will crush this HU pot

hand 2 raise flop

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