Yep, hand 1 pretty much sucks. You're obviously thinking that you can't bet because he'll fold. How would you have played an AQo hand here?

Also, check my comments to wellrounded in Slevin's thread here on paired boards:
http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...nd-t74811.html

Hand 2: First good thing - you at least get the preflop call out of it in terms of value. When I play AA I tend to get folds preflop - that's the normal result. Everything on top of the blinds is gravy.

On a bluffy flop it's possibly appropriate to bet small. The basic point is that any queen will call you and give you at least SOME value - maybe KJ, KT or JT hands will also come along - but there isn't much your opponents can have that they will commit a full stack to. Of course you hope he has QQ, but it's pretty unlikely.

a. Yes
b. Yes - obviously moreso when you get to showdown having played fast. Don't show your hand just to tell him you had the goods.

When you are looking to extract value you think about what hand is most likely to give you the value - what hands will bet into you or raise and what hands will call your bets? How strong are they, and how big and how many bets will they call?

One way to play the mortal nuts is to decide before you act on the flop which pocket holding you want to represent. Take 77 as an example.
Bet bigger on the flop because 77 would not want KJ/KT/JT to get cheap draws and 77 might be best.
When called 77 is either behind a Q or ahead of KT/KJ/JT - 77 could try to check the turn hoping for a free card and if that card is not a K, J or T fire the river as a bluff. If we're bet into here he has a hand and we can give up the pretense of playing 77 and can just reraise big expecting at least some calls.
If checked through to river you will have signalled weakness and can make a straightforward value bet on the river which is more likely to be called than a big bet on the turn was due to the display of weakness. Here again you can ignore that a 77 would not bet K, J or T and bet them anyway hoping he'd hit them and think his hand improved. If he raises just put him all-in.

You are obviously happy to get your entire stack in the middle, but your opponent needs to cooperate and while getting him to cooperate you need to pick a line that provides some kind of fold equity to your non-nut hands that you could show up with. Slowplaying is actually an example of this - it protects your B range if he knows you can check a monster - but slowplaying is just so overused that it's worth recommending playing straightforward for a change in most cases.

While just betting all three streets is good because it gives fold equity to a number of your bluffing lines (which arguably need it the most) I also like with a nut hand to pick a weak hand that I would bet the flop with and decide to represent that, as sort of a balancing measure between slowplaying and fastplaying.

When deciding on what size bet to make consider these two (possibly conflicting) things: Don't bet 9bb if he'll call 12bb - bet 12bb. Consider if there's a drawing hand possible in your range that would need fold equity to be profitable, and consider what bet size represents a bet that needs fold equity.