These two hands played out in a tournament I played yesterday and I'd appreciate comments/advice on my play, and, how can I avoid these in the future.

The tournament is a $1.10 45-player SNG Sat to the Sunday 100K. By this stage we were down to 12 players and I had a commanding chip lead (16K, 2nd had about 9K) and could have cruised to the money.
The players all seemed to be fairly good (I've not been playing for very long )

In the first hand it folded to the blinds and I played with a view to let the SB see the flop then try to make him pay if I hit something.


PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t200 (6 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver (Format: Plain Text)

CO (t7740)
Button (t2845)
SB (Villian) (t4870)
Hero (t16848)
UTG (t6742)
MP (t2115)

Preflop: Hero is BB with Jc, 9s.
2 folds, CO calls t200, 1 fold, SB (Villian) completes, Hero checks.

Flop: (t625) 9c, 8s, 8c (3 players)
Villian checks, Hero bets t500, CO folds, Villian raises to t1000, Hero raises to t4500, Villian raises to t4645, Hero calls t145.

Turn: (t9915) 3s (2 players)
River: (t9915) Ac (2 players)

Final Pot: t9915

Results in white below:
Villian has 8h 5d (three of a kind, eights).
Hero has Jc 9s (two pair, nines and eights).
Outcome: Villian wins t9915.


In the second hand I checked the BB and, again, tried to make him pay.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (6 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver (Format: Plain Text)

CO (t7340)
Button (t2345)
SB (Villian) (t11115)
Hero (t12403)
UTG (t6292)
MP (t1665)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 6h, 3c.
4 folds, SB (Villian) completes, Hero checks.

Flop: (t725) 5h, 3h, 3s (2 players)
Villian checks, Hero bets t400, Villian raises to t1200, Hero raises to t4000, Villian raises to t10690, Hero calls t6690.

Turn: (t22105) 9h (2 players)
River: (t22105) 4s (2 players)

Final Pot: t22105

Results in white below:
Villian has Jc 3d (three of a kind, threes).
Hero has 6h 3c (three of a kind, threes).
Outcome: Villian wins t22105.


I finished the tournament in 12th place in the very next hand, partly because I'd totally lost interest in that particular tournament.