Thanks in advance!

HAND ONE:

(MP) Hero (~$400)
(UTG +1) Villain ($~190)

No real information on Villain; haven't played too often at this cardroom.

Hero with Ad9d

Preflop:
Button straddle to $5, folds to Villain at UTG +1 who bets $15, Hero calls, MP+1 calls, rest fold.

Flop: 9s8d6s

Villain raises to $35, Hero raises to $100, MP+1 (at about ~$200) folds, Villain tanks for a minute and then raises all in.

???

What's the right play in this spot?

HAND TWO

(CO) Hero ($~300)
(BTN) Villain ($200)

Hero with AKo

Preflop:
Button straddle to 5, two limps, Hero raises to $15, Villain calls, everyone else folds.

Flop: 252ss

Hero raises to $25, Villain minraises to $50

???

Hand 1 dont raise the flop.

Hand 2 raise more pre.

Both hands, dont post the results please.

Glgl

Thanks, edited the post. Should I have flatted the flop for Hand 1? What's the rationale? I was afraid that it was a drawy board and I didn't think I would be good with TPTK on the 9 for long.

A9s plays best in multi way pots, because you need the better odds for it to be profitable. This translates to only playing it in late position. You called an early position raiser, not knowing what the field would do.

If it went: raise 15, call, call, call, I would be totally OK with the call.

As played, your hand looks like a draw, or exactly what you had, which villain seems to have figured out. His range looks like an over pair. If you had a made hand, you would have called and waited for the turn.

In short, you were out played.

Hand 1 fold pre, as played just calling flop bet of 35. Can't fold now putting so much in the pot.

Hand 2 way bigger pre, $30-$40

grunch

General hand history comment: The first player to make a wager on the flop/turn/river "bets" they don't "raise". It's only preflop that the first wager bigger than the BB is called a "raise".

Hand 1:
Fold pre. This is not a hand to flat an UTG+1 raiser with, especially with the shortened stacks of a straddled pot.

As played pre, I'd probably call one time on the flop and then fold turn if it's not an Ace or a 9. You're behind all overpairs which are rather likely in this spot. You could consider turning your hand into a bluff if the turn completes the straight.

As played on the flop, call off the last $75 of course.

Hand 2:
Raise more preflop with two limpers and the extra money of a straddle. You should be making it $25-$30 preflop.

As played preflop: Flop decision is a bit interesting. I think opponent never has a 2 here unless he's super loose with A2s. So this makes me want to just jam the flop and hope he "Found out where he was at" and makes the fold. He might also call with a flush draw which we're not doing too badly against.

If we have the A I'd say we can call here and continue only if the turn is a and otherwise, just jam the flop and root for a fold.

I'm folding pre flop in hand number one. We're doing terribly vs an utg range and our call is likely to encourage callers behind us putting us out of position in a multi way pot.

I realize we want to play hands like A9s in a multiway pot looking to overflush someone, I think we really need a caller or two in front of us to ensure position. Also, we don't want to cold call just to have everyone fold or worse, we get squeezed.

I think in today's game, calling with every suited ace looking to hit a flush in every situation is going to lose you a lot of money.

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