[bozlax]

Hand 1: good up to the turn, raise the turn. Lots of hands will stick with you to the river. Cap the turn if you can and the river against Mr. Clueless. He might have a straight, a worse flush, trip 8s, anything. This is a situation where if you lose less than the max, you're not playing hard enough.

Hand 2: saints preserve us from the weak-tightness. If you raise preflop and check the flop of course some donk behind you is going to bet. Don't decide you're behind in the hand until somebody tells you you're behind, and a late position open-bet when you raised the BB preflop is NOT telling you you're behind.