Hand 1: utg (tight/solid) opens to 10, V in CO (laggy) 3b to 30,hero in BB has QQ and calls rather than 4b bc of utg range. Utg calls.

Flop (90): 872tt. I check, utg check, co bets 75, I call, utg folds. Heads up to the turn

Turn (240): 7o. I check/call bet of 100

River (440): Jo. Check, check. I win vs A8s

Hand 2 (a few hands later): V (same as A8s) opens to 20, short stack mp calls I 3b from the Btn to 85 with KK, only V calls

Flop (190): QT9. Villain donk shoves for 570... hero?

Don't post results of the hand in the original post (usually not until after discussion has died down).

Hand 1:
The rule: "raise loose players with tight players left to act, don't raise tight players with loose players left to act." Would lead us to 4-bet here preflop. We can get the tight player to fold AK here and if he jams we know he has AA/KK. And we should be solidly ahead of LAG's GII range when tight player folds.

As played, this might be a rare spot to lead the flop as it binds the tight player between you and the loose player and allows you to accurately range him before the LAG acts. As played, UTG could still have a slowplayed KK/AA and you're gonna get squeezed.

As played on the flop, I'd probably jam turn assuming there's very little left to bet.

Hand 2:
Do you cover him? If so, this is really kinda gross, but I think it's a call and expect to see like QJ, JT, J9 or something a lot and we block a lot of that hands outs. We're not even too far behind two pair. I'd much rather fold AA.

H1: stack sizes? I think you realized based on showdown that not 4! here was a mistake, even if you won more money in the end.

H2. I'm ok with folding here. There's a certain type of V that plays straights like this (face up overbetting) and if you have any reads that V might be one of these, then folding is ok.