hand 1: open for less. a third of your stack with QJ? open for 24k, standard 3xBB.

hand 2: dont know. KQ is a hand i play fairly carefully, bc people tend to overplay Ax when shorthanded. can an argument be made for limping. otherwise id analyze it like this: if you win this hand, you prob. win the tourney. if you lose, you finish in 3rd. if you fold, what are your chances then? when you open pots at any stage of the tourney, you have to have a plan when you get reraised, bc its gonna happen. i would fold this, and try to take adv. of the passive player. If hell bluff into KQ, hell bluff into AK, or JJ, or something better. Im fervently trying to set a trap in this situation.