More AK hands from a noob

AK seems to be something i have trouble with but you guys have helped me alot. I want to see if I played these 2 hands right.

First one Villain was 15-4 over 175 hands I had notes on him that he slowplays Large PP examples were raised to.12 with KK and to .08 with QQ.

Merge Network $0.02/$0.04 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players -

BB: $7.01
UTG: $5.17
Hero (UTG+1): $3.96
UTG+2: $3.61
MP1: $2.62
MP2: $7.52
CO: $3.00
BTN: $4.06
SB: $3.75

Pre Flop: ($0.06) Hero is UTG+1 with A K
1 fold, Hero raises to $0.24, 4 folds, BTN calls $0.24, 2 folds

Flop: ($0.54) 4 8 6 (2 players)
Hero bets $0.27, BTN calls $0.27

Turn: ($1.08) 9 (2 players)
Hero bets $0.54, BTN calls $0.54

River: ($2.16) T (2 players)
[color=red]Hero bets $2.91 all in??

Is this how you would play the draw?? Is shoving the river optimal? or does it look like i have the nuts??

Second Hand I had no reads on this guy at all the hud for him had not came up yet and he left after this hand.

Merge Network $0.02/$0.04 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players -
SB: $4.50
BB: $2.81
UTG: $3.73
UTG+1: $4.58
UTG+2: $4.70
MP1: $19.02
MP2: $4.07
Hero (CO): $4.36
BTN: $2.12

Pre Flop: ($0.06) Hero is CO with K A
UTG calls $0.04, UTG+1 calls $0.04, UTG+2 raises to $0.22, 2 folds, Hero raises to $0.40, 5 folds, UTG+2 calls $0.18

Flop: ($0.94) J K 4 (2 players)
UTG+2 checks, Hero bets $0.47, UTG+2 raises to $4.30 all in Hero?????

After he check raised all in I tanked I was thinking he had either hit a set, had AK too, had spazzed out with KJ, or had complete air. I discounted AA b/c he didn't raise me pre. Is this line of thinking correct?

Hand 1 ship river. He calls with a lot of hands here.

Hand 2, 3bet to .65-.70 and shipping your TPTK becomes an easier decision imo.

Originally Posted by StarGrinder

Hand 1 ship river. He calls with a lot of hands here.

Hand 2, 3bet to .65-.70 and shipping your TPTK becomes an easier decision imo.

So Pre I should be 3 betting higher?? Is this to narrow his range??

Originally Posted by gotigers1234

So Pre I should be 3 betting higher?? Is this to narrow his range??

Not really, I would imagine we're raising more pre for value... the range he calls a 3bet to 0.40 with is not much wider than the range he calls 0.55. We're also giving him excellent setmining odds by giving him a call of 0.18 instead of a larger call of perhaps 0.33.

Hand 1, I'm betting more than half the pot on flop and turn, the reason is simply because I would bet AA strongly here. I don't want to play my nfd any differently to flopped sets and overpairs when I'm the agggressor, I don't want to tell the villain I'm drawing by betting weak. So I'm betting around 70-80% of the pot on both flop and turn, rather than half the pot. This sets up a much easier river shove. As played, shove river anyway, he has tons of worse flushes that call, and he'll hero call a set and overpair pretty often too, sometimes even top pair.

Hand 2, this is a tough spot imo. Without any solid reads or stats, I probably just fold here, but if I know villain is an idiot it becomes harder to lay down.