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This is a live, 9 handed private game in my hometown. The makeup of the game is comprised of successful businessmen mainly, and three younger kids (myself included), one of whom is a WPT winner and v. strong player.

The cap is 5k in the game and it's just warming up.



Hand 1:
Effective stacks are 5k.
A new player I haven't met before shows up in the game and he has raised two hands preflop in the first four hands he's played. One limper, he makes it 150 in the cutoff I make it 475 on the button with K9dd. Everyone else folds and he calls OOP.
Flop is 835 two diamonds. He leads for 600. At this point, what is my best line for the rest of the hand? It seems to me like he has a mid-high pocket pair and I don't know much about his capabilities as a player but neither does he of my game so I assume I'd have some FE vs. his range.
Who calls and why, and who raises and why?


Hand 2: Effective stacks are 5k
MP raises preflop to 125 cutoff calls I call on button with 34dd, the SB who is the host of the game and a fairly decent player calls. Flop comes A37 two spades, with the As.
The flop chks around. Turn is a 4, non spade. I make two pair. The small blind leads out for 300.

Are people raising here, if so, to how much? I thought he might have checked an ace on the flop or is now betting a spade draw.

I make it 900 to go. He thinks for a while and calls. This is when it gets interesting.

River is a 3 of spades, completing the flush, giving me a house. He leads out for 1600.

I have about 4k left. What is my action?

Any feedback is welcome,
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