V: Just sit down like 20 mins. Mid 40s Asian. First time play with him. Seems weak.
Hero: Play tight so far. Raised few times and check fold.



Hand 1:

V(SB,250), Hero(MP, $270)

UTG limps Hero raised to $12 with KK, Button calls

Flop ($38): 456r
SB bets 12, UTG calls. Hero raises to $35

Planning to fold if SB re-raises.

Turn ($120): A
V bets 50, Hero tanks calls

Thought:

Weird, he calls my raise on flop and bet turn. Straight? unlikely. Set? maybe. over pairs? since it's so hard to flop set, hero put him on over pairs.

River ($220): A
V bets 100. Hero snap calls.


Hand 2:

Save V as above
V(SB,170), Hero(MP, $500)

UTG limps Hero raised to 15 with AcAH, Button calls, V calls

Flop ($44): 9sThQh
SB check, Hero bets 25, button folds. SB raises to 50. Hero calls

Turn ($144): 5H
V goes all in for about $100. Hero?

H1 - V isnt slowing down when you raise his weak donk (which was good) and A-turn A-river which should smack your range. At this point you have a bluff catcher imo. This isnt 88-JJ. V has a lot of sets, 78 and Ax suited - like A2-A7 sooooted here. Other than pure bluff you dont beat any of his range.

H2 - Lol - considering stacks size I assume I am wrong about the above. Call. You may be ahead and should have enough equity (without working through it exactly).

H1: I guess V could have some flopped lower 2p that you beat now. Like 45 or 56. I guess that makes it closer. Plus if he got stupid with 77 or something. I guess given odds you can make a crying call but I think the action is pretty strong. I dont think he has TT and decided he is ahead after it came A turn A river like ever.

Yeah these would be better posted separately as stack sizes in hand 2 give the result of hand 1 away.

Hand 1 V can also have 76/75 to call the flop raise with then make a weird blocking bet/bluff on turn followed by a another bluff on river after hero hesitates to call turn.

Hand 2 V is pretty strong. However on the turn V's two pairs all leave hero with an extra 6 outs to a higher 2-pair thus giving hero 9 flush outs, 2 set outs (vs sets too) and 6 2-pair outs (vs 2-pair only). Depending on V hand in hand 1 he may over value 1- pair so could have QX.

Hero has 17 outs vs 2-pair (less flush board pairs that give V a boat). That's around 33% equity and pot odds are a little better than 2 to 1 so hero can call profitably vs V's 2-pairs.

Hero has around 11 outs vs sets so 22% equity = a bit -EV to call vs sets.

Hero has 9 outs vs straights so only 18% equity = significantly -EV to call vs straights.

Villain can likely have 16 combos of KJ here, maybe not all combos of J8, say 8 combos. 9 combos sets and maybe not all combos of 2-pair, say half again for 14 combos. So we can see Villain has to have some top pair here to make hero's call +EV.

Hand 1: Can't tell the action at all from your post. Whose in? SB? UTG? It makes it way harder to follow when you don't say explicitly what the action is. He never has overs on this turn after the A falls. I think you're putting him on that because it suits your eagerness to stack off with KK. Easy fold OTT.

Hand 2: Again, you should post explicitly whose in and who isn't, makes it way easier to follow. I cbet more than 25 here, maybe 35 to deny drawing odds. Now it's either a fold or a call/gii, just do the math.