Originally Posted by elipsesjeff

Hand 1: You could probably fold here, especially after he calls your massive flop raise.

Hand 2: I don't know how else to play it. Hope that villain has AQ and pays you off. I think if you check behind or bet any less you give your opponent a chance to draw out on you for free if he has KT or 9Ts.

Originally Posted by bdawg56kg

1) Looks fine. No reason to think the A helped him.

2) I'd check turn, possibly check flop. If he is as you described, the only hand that calls your push that you beat is AQ. I wouldn't go putting too much emphasis on the fact that it's the 2nd round in a row that you 3bet from co/bn. First, 3-betting twice really is nothing and usually will not cause opponents to play back at you. Second, unless you have specifically 3-bet HIM twice, he will probably will not suspect you to be making a move, and hence will not get out of line here.

Originally Posted by euphoricism

I disagree with both your comments bdawg.

Originally Posted by alias2211

hand 1: either he needed that A and spiked it or he didn't need it and was glad it came in case you had one. does he know that $40 into $70 isn't going to push you off a worse hand? if so, easy fold. i think this is really read oriented, if he's taking tons of stabs w/ air then i call. if not, it's a fold. i have played against some players that would see this as an opportunity for a bluff, but not many of them @ $100nl. that would be a pretty advanced play.

hand2: you can't check turn behind because the pot size and your stack size are about the same. if you guys were deeper then you could check turn. in this case, i either call his lead out push, check raise him all in or open push myself. turn all in is best for this spot. one comment about the flop bet size: do you see how on the turn you're asking him to call $63 into $72? if you had bet full pot on flop and he's drawing, it's much easier for him to call your last $54 into $90. both A10s and 910s have about the same chance to win that hand after the turn brick (30%) even though on the flop they were about coinflips with you.

if you're smoked anyway it doesn't much matter, this is a fine spot to go broke. but you're going to get more value by getting them "priced in" by the time the turn would possibly fall.