$2500 Won and Lost @ Venetian the Last 2 Days - 2 Really Tough Hands

As I desperately try to go to sleep I kept replaying 2 hands in my head from today's $2500 Venetian event that I was eliminated from after 8 hours of bullshit cards, a few tricky spots, and generally everything not going my way. I won the lion share of a seat to this bad boy on Sunday night, chopping an SNG for $1900 and selling 10% of myself and tossing in the remainder from the piggy bank. These 2 hands are keeping me from sleeping so I have to blog it before I can crash:

Hand #1: I have been playing tight with the Venetian $20k chips and 1.5 hr levels and had slipped a bit from the starting stack down to about $17k. I mean I was playing as tight as a "Frog's asshole" as some would say. Blinds are 100/200 and I open the cutoff for 525 with 3-3. Button calls, as he has almost all hands, and the SB who had a ton of chips and just bluffed most of them off 5 hands ago has ~ $13k left in his stack and places an orange $1k chip and a green $25 chip in front of his cards. The very attentive dealer announces "re-raise," much to his surprise. I have played with this player before and have seen him do this intending to call, as to make the change easier for the dealer - I am 100% sure he only meant to call. If he didn't mean to call, and was 3rd leveling me, I will quit poker tomorrow. Action back on me, and I do what hopefully most of you would do, and make it $2525 to go. Button folds, SB shoves his $13k overhand and announces "I'm already on tilt, send me home." I genuinely believe he was telling the truth and wanted out. I have played with this player before. I folded 3-3, saving a $15k stack to work with the long levels and this easy competition. FYI I will likely never fold in a situation like this ever again, as mis-raises are rare and me folding after I 4-bet even rarer. I likely call the man w/A-K A-Q and pairs above 8's, but 3's are fucking racing 90% of the time and 10% of the time I hate everyone, when this dude tries to limp with 5-5 and then really tries to donk it off with a dominating hand. I do not mind the way I played it, just sort of mad at the result, and also sort of questioning if I made the right fold. He claimed he had K-J, which again I believe.

Hand #2: New, tougher table. 100-200 w/25. I am down to $12k after getting 3-bet every time I open (so I stopped opening - should I just 4-bet ship everything because I'm getting 3-bet so often???) and generally nothing at all going right all day, and of course not picking up any premium. Dude I've never seen before opens for $800. Brian Devonshire flats on the button. I look down and see AKo, easily the biggest hand I have seen all day. I make it $3k, leaving myself ~ $9k behind. The moment my chips hit the felt the dude I have never seen before ships his face for ~ $30k, with Devo having him well and covered. Devo thinks for a long time and later tells us (and showed a player not in the hand) QQ as it went in the muck. I thought for a while and just folded AK face up and left myself ~$9k, mostly because I love to torture myself in high buy in tourneys. Brandon Can-spew (No offense t Brandon, he has had amazing success with his seemingly crazy and wild style, I just like saying Brandon Can-Spew) and Devonshire both think I should have went with it. I feel the unknown's range is AK, AA, and KK - especially knowing Devo was holding QQ. Does he re-ship for face with

I have posted a question to the PokerRoad red-pro forum here, so the real players can tell me what the fuck I'm supposed to do: http://www.pokerroad.com/forums/showthread.php?p=57448#post57448

:endrant. I can now sleep.