2 FT spots

Hand 1: I might also call here on the river. I do think if you raise Villain would fold A hearts and go all in with J Hearts (straight flush). Villain can also have TT though I would guess Villain would have raised on the turn so they could get it all in on the river.

Hand 2: I would have done a Stop n Go jam on the flop given your description of how Villain always cbets because I think we have more FE and we have only K high.

Congrats on the deep runs!

Hand 1:
Preflop-good
Flop- B80 is good for our exact hand but I think this is a B25 board, depending on stats you have on V fine to size up to get value, in general in ICM we size down at FT and especially on these range bet boards EP vs BB you can just bet your whole range for small size to simply things
Turn- After you B80 flop and he calls, he has a piece. I would size up geometric around pot or B125 to set up SPR <1 on river
River- I think call is fine, but it's very villain dependent. I find in general that 1/2 pot or greater river donks online tend to be more nutted value and they block 1/3 or less with marginal showdown value. I don't think he has any better boats but I would use your HUD to try to decide if this is a profile who would call worse boats, A of hearts, or even like a medium heart if they're a total station.

Hand 2:
Preflop- I would jam pre. BU is dead money and it sounds like CO may be opening too wide. If you have a tight image, I think this is a great spot to go for it. I would rather take suited broadways post with better ability to continue against a guy who's c-betting for big sizes and jam offsuit broadways pre.
Flop- Gross situation, the problem is you basically have no fold equity when you check jam. I don't like open jamming either into 2 ranges who could have QT, all the 2pairs and sets. I don't think you can call OOP any turn besides a Q or a 7 is going to be tough to navigate. As played, I might just fold flop on stone bubble as nitty as that sounds and let this V stack off against one of the larger stacks.

Hand 1: I factor my chip stack into my play here. You said you had tons but V has 75bbs, is he the next biggest stack or do you have 300bbs? I would assume a 100-200bbs is pretty large for a final table but could be wrong. I play it conservative and don’t raise.

Hand 2: like Rick, I would rather stop and go and shove flop rather than let him bet and give him better odds on a call. If you were willing to get it all in w k high and open ended (which I would be heads up) just jam. I would prefer to Win a smaller uncontested pot given your chip stack.

Hand 1: I call river too.

Hand 2: I would actually consider a fold pre because of button's call and the way you describe the percieved opening range of villain + his tendency to c-bet big. We will be OOP, miss most flops and when we do hit chances are we'll be up against a hand that beats us. So call pre seems the worst option to me, but maybe jam's still better. If he's indeed an old school TAG in his way of playing we should be able to benefit from some folds here like KJ or AT that are ahead + maybe lower pairs. But I might be overestimating the tightness of this type of live tournaments. On Pokerstars the average player will call a shove here even with hands we need them to fold for this shove to be profitable I believe. But I only play this type of bubbles with so few players in SnG:s where the average stacks mostly are quite a bit shallower.

H1- yea prolly calling river. I don’t think someone is folding Ah there but what value you getting if you jam river. Would have to be really bad player to call river shove with worse. Ah prolly cry calling though.

H2- I feel jamming pre is really sweet when we find folds. A button call is folding a ton there so you normally just gotta get through original raiser. They can even fold KQo or KJo there easily so I kinda like jam pre. Always nice to win and realize equity without showdown.

Not sure what I would do bc K-10o is in trouble often when we do get called. Button can flat some strong hands to induce a squeeze also but doubt low level recs in daily tournies do this. I feel you don’t really have fold equity when you x jam and they cbet flop big which is normal for bad line tourny players. Picking up 5 bb plus bb ante is sweat there on shall stack without showdown + we have equity when they call. Even a weak A is normally mucking to a jam pre there by the original raiser

Hand 1: I'll second the "how deep are you" question - chip leader vs. this guy, big difference between you having 100BB or something like 200BB. But if his bounty isn't that big then just calling is fine. The fact that you lose to the Jh is pretty relevant to the decision too, as I'm not worried about a ton of bigger boats (maybe TT-- he probably 3-bets KK preflop and I doubt he calls QQ without a heart on the turn, and maybe not even on the flop for your size here).

Also agree that in general we probably should bet smaller on the flop and bigger on the turn here, but in a PKO I don't terribly mind sizing up the flop as long as you keep sizing in a way that makes the threat of a river all-in plausible. Again, though, my inclination to do that vs. take a small-ball approach (at least on the flop) depends in part on just how much you cover villain by.

Hand 2: I think I agree with jk that shove or fold is preferable to calling. I don't know if this hand is strong enough (would feel a lot better about KTs), but if button is as wide as you say he is and you can get cutoff to fold AT and KQ, you're printing money by jamming.

Happy holidays everyone, and thanks for the responses.

In hand 1, I had about 150 BBs and he had 75. Switching places is not ideal, especially because of how much they were folding to my opens, so I guess my rationale for the flat made sense.