I have played several hands today that i was wondering if i have played it right/ how can i play it better

Hand 1
Hero $250 behind image sat for 3 orbits and played 3 hands
Villain: $320 behind semi spewy

Villain SB
Hero BB: J9

2 limpers ahead, SB calls, Hero checks
Pot: $12
Flop
J94

SB checks
Hero bets $10
UTG +1 calls
UTG +2 calls
Villain Raise to $51.
Hero?

Hand 2

Hero SB QQ Stack: $640 behind
Image: some what agressive
Villain 1: UTG + Stack: $250 behind
Image: Tilting from getting rivered 2 times reloaded max 2 times
Villain 2: Button Stack: $460 behind
Image: Sat down on table went around orbit 2 times didn't play much hands

Villain 2 Button straddles to $6
First action on hero: Raise to $16
Villain 1: Calls
Villain 2: Calls

Flop:
8910

Hero bets $35
Villain 1: Raises to $105
Villain 2: Thinks for 2 min and shoves

Hero?

Hand 1
-Need better reads on V than "semi spewy"
-Call and raise most turn cards

Hand 2
-Again, more specific reads would be helpful
-Preflop too small. Try $24
-Crappy flop. Good cbet, now fold.

Hand 1 raise get it in. Hand 2 fold. We are either slightly ahead or way behind.

Hand 1: shove flop. Agains bad players I raise to $120 and get it in

Hand 2: clear fold. I would check this flop and reevaluate. Hoping for a turn blank. Bet fold is fine too

For the first hand i saw him couple of times shipping it with middle pair with straight draws.

Hand 2
The reason I bet $16 was because 3 hands before, when someone raised to $25 V2 repopped it to $ 60 with bottom suited connectors so because of that I was expecting a raise. But yes I agree I should have bet more

Hand 1:

There is a saying regarding "don't go broke in a limped pot". We typically don't want to go broke in limped pots for 83bbs having only invested 1bb preflop.

However, I think I go broke here. If Villain is semi spewy, then I'm guessing he might lean towards raising JJ/99 out of the blinds preflop, and possibly complete hands like J4/94. He could of course be on a monster draw, but we still have good equity against those hands. He might even be getting super tricky with AA or something. So really the only hand I'm concerned about Villain showing up with is 44 (which is reasonable); other than that, I believe we are crushing his range overall.

The other callers have just called on a drawy flop, so unless the first caller is sandbagging a monster looking for overcalls, I doubt we're behind them.

So I raise. There's already $90 in the pot. I'd like to offer poor 2:1 odds for people to chase draws (and with this much action, someone is on a draw). Which means I'd like to call the $40 plus put in PSB raise of $130, for a total of $170. However, putting in $170 leaves me with a rather lol $70 for the turn. So I would actually just ship it here.

GcluelessNLnoobG

Hand 1 - reraise all-in.

Hand 2 - Fold it...with just V1, would've been getting it in but with V2 as well and 2/3 your stack. Not comfortable stacking off here without better reads. Bet more preflop to $25-$30 also.

Hand 2:

A $16 raise on a straddle is an extremely small raise and most likely to create a very multiway pot (which I'm not fond of). However, if we think this will narrow the field (especially to HU) I actually don't mind it as it will create a largish SPR which we are ok playing with. Another option is to raise much larger to get in 10% of stacks so we can stack off postflop, although $45 might be pushing things. Another option would be to limp/reraise which will enable us to get a smallish SPR.

I might just check this flop and see what happens. If our hand doesn't improve to a straight / runner runner flush, then I'm rather cool with attempting to keep pot small and maybe getting paid off on later streets for some value. I'd rather not build a hugenormous pot, and if we bet out and get raised, we're going to have to call due to our draw (we can't really bet/fold like we typically could).

As played, I fold. The price is just way too much at this point.

GcluelessNLnoobG

Hand 1 I like all in. You could raise smaller but any good raise is effective all in anyway. I agree dgb in limped pots but not folding here


Hand 2
I like more preflop as well

Thank you guys for the reviews and how I can get better. I definitely need to work on bet sizing and get better reads on people to play solid poker

this is how I ended up play.

Hand 1
I thought about it for a min and I ended up pushing all-in assuming that if he did indeed have any set he would have bet PF with any pocket pair. he ended up tanking for 3 min and folded the hand

Hand 2
I ended up folding after tanking. Now I think about it I don't even know why I tanked. But Yes I did get better read on V1 that hes tilting so he has something like maybe k.T, A.T, J.T suited (non diamond drawing) but the v2 I knew I was beat but couldn't make sense of it and thought he had something like bottom straight. I ended up folding and V1 calls and V1 turns over Q 10 and the V2 turned over J7 and the turn bricked and river bricked.
I wasn't really upset because I got to see what they were playing with though. But I tanked because I kept thinking V2 has JJ but after thinking for a while it didn't make sense that he did so I folded assuming he had QJ

Hand 1, I'd get it in, but probably raise smaller than my stack but still commit (140-150).

Hand 2, Raise bigger preflop. Snap fold flop. You are rarely good here. (Unsure what the bottom of my call range here is. Maybe T9s? 88 might be the bottom).

Why would you be upset? Didn't you lose to J7?