Chriswashere0900

I think the reason the first hand is a pure fold on the flop is because he will have a lot of QJ in his range so when you hit your gutter you're still not doing well against a tight player.

25nl blitz is the stake I currently play at and I think bluffing the J on the river beats too many of his smaller pairs and I expect most players in the pool to call with AK and AQ without a read. Over bets in my pool tend to be bluffs so they tend to get called more than they should IMO.

For the squeeze spot facing a shorter stack, you want to go for a more polarized 3bet strat. This way, you are getting value from the top portion of your range and when you are bluffing and get shoved on, you are not facing a difficult decision. Blocking a shoving range is good, hands like K9s, A3s, J9s, hands that are comfortable folding to a shoving range but play reasonably well if called and give you some funky hands in different postflop spots against the bigger stacks.

You also get the added benefit of thin value if he happened to have A small and doesn't want to fold river but would almost always check back.