Hand 1 AJo
Preflop
Standard open and min-raise is fine when this short.
Flop
This is a very coordinated board, so we need to be carefull with a top pair or overpair type hand, that dont have any draw. I could actually see checking back this flop to see a safe turn card before starting to put chips in the pot. I dont hate the C-bet either though, we just need to be prepared to get away from this hand later on, if the runout and/or action gets ugly.
Turn
Great turn card which increased your
equity against their range, and I strongly discount 2 pair+ from their range now, because I think, a lot of the time these hands would have raised us on the flop. So I like my hand much more now, and definitely going for some value. I dont like your sizing though. You are deep enough to make this a standard 3 street hand, and this would be my preferred line. If the river card is ugly, you can just check back, and if someone donks into you, maybe fold.
The other option is to move all in. This will force them to either fold and give up their equity, or call it off incorrectly and without implied
odds on the river. If you really just want to pick up the 20k in the middle and not risk getting drawn out on. But if you are going to take this line, then make it an actual all-in, especially in a PKO, where you can win one guys bounty. Leaving yourself 9k behind does nothing other than allow him to potentially call you with a hand like A9 of spades and then fold on the river, when he miss, so that you dont win his entire stack or his bounty.
River
I would never see the river like this, so it pretty much dont matter. But assuming you had gone for a more normal turn sizing like 12k leaving 20k behind, I would check back on this card. It does complete hands like KQ and KJ, and its also a scary card to all the hands, you are still ahead of. Even as played I dont see the point in going after the last 6k. Yeah there are some hands like QJ, J9 etc., that will probably call, but you are also going to get called by a lot of hands, that now beat you and/or were slowplaying, including the one he had.
Hand 2 AQo
Preflop
I love to 3-bet aggressively, but here we are UTG+1 against UTG, and even though its an 8-handed table, this is a very tight configuration. I dont want to get 4-bet, so I prefer to just call and then play some poker. Even folding would not be totally crazy, especially since he has us covered, and we mostly want to go to war with the shorter stacks, so we can win their bounties.
Flop
Your 3-bet got called by UTG and also cold called by BTN, which is pretty gross. Both ranges should contain a high density of pocket pairs, and a pocket pair is never folding on this board. So for me I am basically done with this hand. I am ok C-betting here in a 3-bet pot against just one opponent, but against two I think, this C-bet is just lighting chips on fire.
Turn
Great card obviously, and I can get behind a check. A lot of his range should be pocket pairs, and they are not going to love calling you down in a 3-bet pot, when the A is on the board. Checking here makes it look like, you also have a pocket pair and dont like the A, and then it becomes a guessing game on the river, which pocket pair is higher. As played obviously getting it in, when he bet full pot, and you have so little left behind.
Results
Its always annoying to lose a big pot to someone overplaying their hand, and then they get lucky and get there. But thats part of poker, and its players like this, that keep the game alive. I do think, you could have gotten away cheaper here by not 3-betting and bloating the pot preflop, and frankly also by simply check-folding the flop, when you pretty much missed completely in a multiway pot.