Quote Originally Posted by pokerroomace
i disagree with the other comments and how the hands are played.

1st hand - i think you should raise pf.
as played, i think calling the raise behind is fine.
on the flop: you should either check and then checkraise aggressively if someone behind bets. your aim is to get all your money into the pot by the river in this hand. you have a very big hand.
if you do decide to bet yourself, you should bet $45-$70. a $20 bet is not going to grow the pot, and if anything your bet will act as a blocking bet and stop the pot growing. if you think your weak bet will induce a raise (as it did), then it's not the worst play. but there's a good chance he would have raised if you bet $50 - especially if he has a big pair.
by making such small bets you could him so much room to get away from it. if you bet pot on all 3 streets it's hard for to fold a big pair since he doesn't have that much information and you could have a hand like TPTK or a draw.
when he then does raise you. i think you should raise a lot more than $60. there's $187 in the pot at this point. raise between $100 and $150. this will build the pot and give you the chance to get all your chips in. you could also just flat call his raise and then hope to checkraise him on a safe turn, but this means giving up on an opportunity to build the pot.

I think Lithium's advice on shoving allin on the flop is awful. You have a monster hand and he'd have to be quite a bad player to call a $650+ bet into a $67 pot. A TAGG will not call this bet with AA (unless he has seen you bluff like this before and/or you have a mega loose/maniac/idiot image and then he still might fold). you lose way too much value by shoving on the flop straight away.

you turn bet is good. it's a $200 into a $300 pot. it's not so likely villain will bet the turn if check the turn, because your reraise on the flop.
I think you're right about both the PF raise and the flop play. I should have definitely made nearly a pot-sized bet or possibly even some crazy overbet that would throw him off, but force his raise to be much more than $60.

hand 2:
fold pf.
as played: call the flop. probs call the turn. you have 3 to 1 odds and you have some implied odds. i think if you hit you'll be able to get enough to make the call profitable.
the best option on the turn though is probably a checkraise to $300. i wouldn't have the balls to do it but i think it would be the best play. there's a good chance he'll fold. your read says he is unlikely to have the 7. and worst comes to worst you have loads of outs. you have at least 9 for the flush, but if a K or a 5 comes you might also win the hand. that's an extra 5 outs. and a 7 might make it a split pot.
the best idea on the turn might be to checkraise allin actually. if raise to $350 (pot) then you have to call if he shoves.
if you think that he will respect a potsized raise more than an allin, because he thinks the allin is a bluff, then make the pot sized raise. it also gives you a chance to fold on the river if he just calls and you miss on the river.
if you think moving allin gives you a much higher chance of him folding, then imo you should cr push the turn.
LoL - I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one that thinks that the push would have been correct or that it would take big cahunas to pull off. My gut was telling me to push, but when you're in the moment you can't help but feel like they'll call, you'll miss, and have to make that walk and look like a donkey. Next time it's balls to the wall!

Thanks for the advice