Two typical scanarios late in the tourney, I hate every option...

[Kirkrrr]

These I think could've been the deciding two hands in the tourney. I've been playing extremely tight, picking my spots carefully and haven't had to show any trash hands that I raised but got away with (has nothing to do with the first hand, just the second). All comments appreciated.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t600, 50 ante (9 handed) (1350 Pot Pre-flop) converter

UTG+1 (t4635)
MP1 (t10002)
MP2 (t1009)
MP3 (t11300)
CO (t1565)
Button (t14772)
Hero (t7423)
BB (t2039)
UTG (t7305)

Preflop: Hero is SB with K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
<font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to t1800</font>, All fold to Hero, Hero... ?

Hand #2
BB (big stack at the table) has not been aggressive and don't believe has played a hand yet.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t1200, Ante 75 (9 handed) (Pot 2475 Pre-flop)converter

UTG (t3985)
UTG+1 (t8458)
MP1 (t6716)
MP2 (t7196)
MP3 (t10041)
CO (t7214)
Hero (t9798)
SB (t11052)
BB (t21994)

Preflop: Hero is Button with 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">6 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t4000</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">BB raises to t13200</font>, Hero...

All comments greatly appreciated.
Kirk

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hand 1 push... hand 2 i dont know what you were doing raising to 4k w/ a 9k stack. Push or fold

[MeanGreenTT]

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hand 1 push... hand 2 i dont know what you were doing raising to 4k w/ a 9k stack. Push or fold

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yup....raising 1/2 your stack then folding....????

[illegit]

Hand one; either stop-and-go, or re-raise allin. Stop and go probably loses AQ postflop if neither hits, which we don't want, but againt small PPs we gain some FE that we'd like to have so i like stop and go on average. Though pushing is certainly reasonable as well.

Hand 2; either open-push or fold. With a solid image I open push. After committing nearly half my stack with my open raise as you did I'm still calling the re-raise with this absolute trash and hating every second of it.