two simple situations

[texasrattlers]

Thoughts on how to play these hands? I am wondering if I played them too weak?

Stars $15 Turbo

*********** # 30 **************
Level V (75/150)
Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: VCoach (1945 in chips)
Seat 3: LolitaLips (1705 in chips)
Seat 4: CoinPiece (2735 in chips)
Seat 5: Hero (3040 in chips)
Seat 7: BCinNY (1325 in chips)
Seat 8: plotty (2750 in chips)
BCinNY: posts small blind 75
plotty: posts big blind 150

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif T/images/graemlins/diamond.gif]

VCoach: folds
LolitaLips: raises 300 to 450
CoinPiece: folds
Hero: folds


*********** # 36 **************
Level VI (100/200)
Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: VCoach (2595 in chips)
Seat 3: LolitaLips (3030 in chips)
Seat 4: CoinPiece (3435 in chips)
Seat 5: Hero (2740 in chips)
Seat 8: plotty (1700 in chips)
VCoach: posts small blind 100
LolitaLips: posts big blind 200

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [K/images/graemlins/heart.gif A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif]

CoinPiece: raises 800 to 1000
Hero: folds

[curtains]

Hand 1 is a good fold.

Hand 2 I would move allin. He's too likely to have some hand like AQ or AJ to fold AK here. I admit he probably isn't going to fold for 1700 after putting in 1000, but the EV of moving allin should be clearly positive. Also I like to move allin here, because folding by no means guarantees that you will even make the money. If two stacks are sitting there with 100-500 in chips, then its a lot closer.

[texasrattlers]

A push may be the best play. I was planning to push had he folded/called/2-3X BB raised. But it seems a 5XBB raise is usually mid pocket pairs, and I didn't want to put my whole tournament onto a coin flip at that point.