hand1:
i know you guys hate open limping but i keep stacking people with monster flops with hands that i dont like to raise (suited connectors, AXs, mid-low pp). I find these low stakes are limp heavy and a monster in a big multiway pot (obv this wasnt a monster) can really pay off?
If i had opened with a raise and the villain called, what extra info do i have about him in this case? Any set, KQ, Kx (doubtful) is in his range still and those are basically the hands im worried about anyway..

And ok re. river raise, i almost always call in that situation but thought i was in some value situation so i tried to be cool - obv i wasnt

hand2:
ok thanks, this is basically what i was thinking in retrospect, but in the heat of the moment i was like uhh i dunno how much would fug his pot odds (obviously a pot sized bet+ would do it) to make an expensive call. so i just shoved.