Its not really a "bad beat", when a strong draw gets there, because the draw has significant
equity on the flop. In this case maybe 35% or something in that ballpark. And even if it was a "bad beat", those are just part of the game, and its more important to focus on, what we control, which is our own decisions in the hand. And in the AQ hand, I dont really like any of your decisions.
Preflop you min-raised with 75BB stacks, whereas in some other hands you raise to 3BB with sub 20BB stacks, which is totally backwards. And it does matter. When stacks are deep, we want to raise enough to avoid to many multiway pots like this one and give the blinds a bad price to defend. Like maybe 3BB. And who knows? Maybe 74s actually fold, if you go to 3BB, whereas against a min-raise he would make a mistake by not seeing a flop.
You flop top two, and obviously you need to C-bet such a strong hand for value, but you go incredibly small. That sizing is leaving chips on the table, and it also induced a weird min-raise from the player next to act, which the two other guys then called. After that you jammed, which was an overbet, and this is only a good play, if people are bad enough to actually call with hands like those, they had. You dont mind, if the flushdraw fold, but its a disaster, if the guy with A7 gets away on the flop, since he is drawing basically dead.
If you make it a more reasonable size like 100 chips, then you most likely dont get raised, and you go 3-4 ways to the turn. When the flushdraw comes in, you can then check, and maybe the guys behind check back. A7 certainly did not like that card either, so he would not have bet the turn for sure. Or if he did, and BB now check-jam, you can fold and not lose your entire stack. Assuming the turn gets checked through, pot is around 500-600 with 1.300 left behind, and if BB lead out with his flush, you can just call and not lose your entire stack.
So yes this hand is a bit of a bad beat, at least in the sense, that you got all the chips in on flop against two opponents with around 60-65% equity. But if you had sized your bets better, both preflop and on the flop, you dont need to loose your entire stack and be out after just 5 hands. And this is important. Setups like top two pair against a flush are part of the game, but we dont always need to go broke to them with deep stacks.
The AKs vs. KK hand is just a standard "flip", and the only concerning thing is the way, you frame it. "The RnG strikes again". What are you talking about? You were the second shortest stack left, so of course you will be among the players to not cash a decent amount of the time. This has nothing to do with the RnG, but it might have something to do with the way you played all the hands prior to this one. Maybe you could have done something different in those hands, so you were actually the chip leader and could afford to run AK into KK.
