HUSNG: Facing large Pf raises from Loose passive player

[RyanJM]

First hand I would call or fold, with a lean toward fold based on your assessment of loose/passive. He's either got a pocket pair here or a big ace. Re-raise is asking for trouble.

Second hand I probably fold. It's pretty close, but 15/30 you still have room to play with that stack, and you have no fold equity at all. It'd be fine to shove that, but not fine to call all-in in my opinion. I'm not sure what you mean by equity exactly, but if you're talking about fold equity you can google to find articles on it, but the basic idea centers around pot odds. If you raise to 460 total, he already has 270 in the pot and only has to call 190 more to win a 920 pot. 190/920 = 20%, so he'd have to believe he is worse than 4:1 in order to fold here. In reality, he will never fold here with these stacks and a chance to win it. You're basically hoping to be a 50/50 which you most likely are, but there's a chance you're 20/80 which sucks.