Hello,
It's my second post here (and i'm french) so please be nice :p
I usually play 20->150€ MTT so i will talk about my experience.
For the 1st one, UTG+1 vs open utg TT is really weak. Futhermore we have 6 players to act behind us so that's not a really profitable shove imo. Call for 10% of effective stack with a hand which plays really bad on flops will be awfull for me, so i would fold.

For the second hand it's a bit different because we are facing a shove from the BU. if we assume his range to be AQ+; 88+ we have appromatively 39.83% equity. The pot is 8k*6 + 80k + 40k + 160k + 1150k = 1478k; you need to put 990k to win a 1478k + 990k = 2468k pot. So you basically need 40.11% of equity.
So it's close for me, I'm not really good with ICM stuff but I assume it would be a fold too...

Then, talking about strategy with in TF with those stacksizes : I usually have a PLAY TO WIN strategy. I will often resteal with a "wide" range vs wide openers (who minraise). But then i won't be Open shoving 13-14bb+. Never with similar stacks, because we can easily minraise/fold KQo, AJo, hands like this if opponents have a really tight range of resteal. it's more low variance and there's a lot to win so it's important to keep your stack and not to be gambling too much.

i hope my answer will be understandable, i'm sorry if it's not but :)
It will be a pleasure to discuss with those hands and strategy, i'm here to improve.
Cheers

congrats first! what place did u get?
as for the hands, with out the info on all chip stacks at the table its impossible to analyze them.

Nice run, congrats!

I watched a decent bit of the final table, and on both I'd say it depends who the opponent is. The chipleader at the time was opening fairly wide, and everyone else was playing tight and hoping to ladder. So I'd be inclined to give extra credit for strong hands to everyone else.

With the TT I happily shove it vs riasedbyscorn. for the reasons I said above. Vs anyone else at that table at that point I think its a fold given what their UTG range would be.

On the second hand, same thing. Call vs the chipleader, fold and never tell anyone what I had vs everyone else. You might occasionally run into aj or a10, but the way the table had been playing, I'd say you're flipping at best,and often have 3 outs. You're rarely ahead. I'd be curious what ICMizer says. I remember one of the Greenwood vids where it showed AQ was a fold shorthanded at a final table. It sucks to fold there, but my gut says you make the most money by doing so.

Tourney reg i respect says open fold AQs may be correct in hand 2, i think that it is too tight. thoughts?

1st call pre.

2nd r/f. Raise is creating value and it is not that high variance since stacks are shallow enough that you are either r/c or r/f on that spot. If AQs is one of the worst hands you would open with that stack size, then it is a easy fold to a jam.

Hm, was the TT one of the first hand of the ft? Didnt check any numbers but shoving seems like a mistake. Flatting is still profitable, I don't tend to create my own flatting/shoving ranges, just try to play the most exploitative/higher EV strategy, (obv if we can't shove but flatting is better than folding with TT, you don't have to split TT onto 2 strategic options) . That said, I agree best/most balanced strategy here seems one like Raphael said, flatting with TT+ AK, but I also think we can profitably flat the AQs there. Also just to note that if there are many shorts behind you the EV of flatting will increase as you already know