Hand 1 - T2o
Preflop
We are only facing a min-raise, but there is no ante, and SB have already called. In that situation I am not defending as wide as T2o. Its not a huge mistake though. You are after all getting 5:1, and you have position on one opponent, so you should defend kind of wide here. Maybe just not quite as wide as T2o.
Flop
I dont totally hate leading out here and kind of turning your hand into a
bluff, since the preflop raiser will have missed this board a lot, and its kind of difficult to get the lowest possible pair to showdown and be good against two opponents. So yeah why not fire the gun and try to take it down right here and now. You do however sound like, you think, you are always ahead here, and thats certainly not the case. Maybe its sort of unlikely, they have a 2 or 5, but they can have a pocket pair, and you lose to all of those. Especially the preflop raiser can have any pocket pair including AA, KK, QQ and all the way down, and you are crushed by all those hands. And for that reason when you get jammed on, I would abandon ship and let it go.
Results
So he was actually
bluffing, but then he got there. Thats poker my friend, and it will also happen in normal tournaments.
Hand 2 - 52o
Preflop
SB limp to us, and sure we take a free flop with a hand this bad.
Flop
Standard call since we flopped a pair. His range can be very wide, and we are certainly not always behind.
Turn
Now we make two pair, and he jam in the rest of his chips for a massive 4 x the pot overbet. Yeah sure I am calling here. Lets see, what he have, and roll the dice.
Results
So he had aces none the less, so you were ahead on the turn, but once again you got counterfeited. Cry me a river and post in "bad beats and wents" next time.
Conclusion:
The 52o hand was played flawlessly by you. The opponent made a mistake with his betsize on the turn and got lucky. Such is poker. The T2o hand on the other hand was not played so well, even though you managed to get your chips in good. However that is kind of an outlier in my opinion. A lot of the time you will have 2 outs against a hand like KK, when you call that jam on the flop, and you will be the player looking for some miracle runout to save you. I also think, the hand should have been folded preflop even to a min-raise.