Two unthrilling bubble hands

[timprov]

I've been lurking here (and playing a lot of SnGs) for a couple of months, and thought I'd like to get your input on a couple of recent hands I'm not happy with. These are both from a 5-handed $33 at Pacific, a tournament where we spent a lot of time four-handed with three short stacks, including me.

Across from me is the big stack, who is a fairly solid but not very scary player. To my right is the obviously weakest player at the table, he's very weak/passive. The player to my left hasn't played much, has shown that he knows how to blind-steal, and is pretty clearly the best of the three I'm facing.

Stack sizes are approximate.

Hand 1:

Weak (7BB)
Hero (8BB)
Good (5BB)
BigStack (15BB)

Hero gets A6o in the SB. Both bigstack and weak limp. Hero?

I completed and folded a rag flop, which might be the worst thing to do. It's certainly very weak, but I wasn't thrilled at the prospect of a multiway pot with A6. Could I have just folded?

Hand 2 is more interesting:

Weak (2BB)
Hero (9BB)
Good (9BB)
BigStack (15BB)

Hero gets K3s in the BB. Good folds, bigstack limps, weak pushes. Hero?

On the one hand, there's the pot odds call here, but I'm not last to act and I'm pretty sure bigstack is going to call. I thought about it a while, and decided to fold, primarily because I was worried about losing folding equity against the good player. It turns out weak had QJ and bigstack had JT, neither improved. Was this too weak of me?

Fortunately I had some nice plays in me as well as these lame ones, and I went on to win.

[lorinda]

Hand 1 I tend to complete and fold the flop too.

Completing does more than just gives you a chance at the pot, it also generates action OR scares people into checking down, both are fine.

Hand 2 I call.

Many players will check down against an all-in player you are not severely denting yourself by calling.

Lori