Some live hands

[tamsarian]

Hi everybody, I ´d like to discuss two live hands with you. Reading all the books there are and trying to improve doesn´t really seem to work in terms of ROI. So I ask you for your opinions.

hand Nr.1

1-2 NL full ring. the usual suspects. Mostly weak-tight players, but the occasional super-loose guy as well. Typical 1-2 live game. My image is loose, I stacked some guy with 56s a couple of hande earlier, raised pf and flopped the nuts. Now I sit with AA utg. Pre-flop raise to 15, HJ calls, button calls. Flop 6-7-8 rainbow. I don´t really like this flop. I´m pretty deep (my stack 400, HJ 100, button has me covered). So I fire 50, HJ folds, button tanks for a bit, then asks me: why so much? I don´t react. Every time somebody asks me this, they have caught a little bit of the flop and look for a excuse to raise me off my "bluff". Finally the button raises to 150. While I would usually fold here, I was pretty sure my aces were good. With two pair, a set or a straight the button would have raised quietly. So I push all in, and the button hits a 10 on the rives for two pair, eights and tens.

With my read would you have taken a different approach?

hand nr. 2

1-2 NL full ring. I´m in lp with 56s. I was pretty card dead for a while, so I raise to twelve, the button calls, utg calls. We are all about 100 bb deep. Flop q-6-7, 2 spades. utg checks, I fire 30. With the calling ranges at a 1-2 table as wide as they are, I think I have a pretty good chance of taking this pot down if no one has a queen. The button, a loose, old guy, insta-raises to 60, utg folds. I thought this raise probably meant qt+ (except qq, he wouldn´t raise this), flush draw, perhaps even an underpair like jacks or tens, . If he raises more i´d fold, but with 120 already in the pot I am not ready to give up yet. I call the remaining 30, turn is 4h. It was not the card I was hoping for, but I have an open-ender, and a 6 or 5 would probably give me a winning hand as well.

So I push my remaining 125, he snap-calls with KQo, no help on the river.

What´s your opinion on those two hands? Would you have taken a different approach? With callers as loose as those guys, should I just wait for better spots? In hand number one, I can understand the villains line of play, he is not that much behind considering the gutshot and me probably having just an overpair or an AK type of hand. In the second hand I don´t understand the call on the turn. What kind of hand fits my line of play that he´s ahead of? I can´t really think of one except AKs. Although I do raise quite wide if position is good or opponents are weak, I usually show down "weak" starting hands only as winners.

Lookinf forward to your comments.

Tams