AKo-AQo - missplayed both?

[@bsolute_luck]

you have a serious case of "monsters under the bed"-itis to be folding these. the only cure is to go to showdown and see. very sad here.

[BruinEric]

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I don't like calling a raise from the SB w AQ here.

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Are you advocating a 3-bet or a fold? If it's the latter, I want some of what you're smoking.

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You will surely want to have some of what the authors of SSHE are smoking too. Their default recommendations on AQo from Small Blind are:

Tight Game: Raise unraised pot. Fold to a raise.
Loose Game: Raise unraised pot. Call one raise, fold to more.

(Insert Miller et al's disclaimer on pre-flop play, adjustments, training wheels, etc. here)

Nevertheless, these are the default recommendations by poker players and authors much better than I, so I think their opinion at least worth considering.

[imported_The Vibesman]

I think you laid both of these down way too early.

Hand 1: He could be raising that flop w/ a number of hands you are ahead of; I think you need to 3bet this. Lead the turn if he calls; check/call turn and river if he caps. I think you folded this too soon.

Hand 2: Check/call turn, call river. He could be making this move w/ AJs, ATs, even KJs. You seem to be putting him on AK, AA, or KK and there's not enough evidence for that.