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Hand 1 - this is fine until the river. Why are you calling ace high? Turn is marginal, but ok his Kx hands in his range are super unlikely to have made a full house, while 22 and 55 probably raise the flop, so I don't mind calling vs this minraise. His raise on the turn is ok, he might get called by flush draws, and AA probably isn't folding at these stakes. Also QQ JJ, worse Kx, there are hands he can expect value from. That said, lots of villains are not thinking about your range and are simply looking at the perceived strength of their hand. Trips, strong, raise. That's villain's thought process on the turn. At river, we miss everything and have the world's easiest fold.
Hand 2 - I think given reads, you can just go ahead and put him in on the turn. Pay attention to stacks. There's only the two of you in the hand, he has 5c left behind after his turn bet, put him all in. At least then when he makes his hand, you have the satisfaction of knowing that ALL of the money went in when you were ahead. You can't control the river, so take it on the chin, make a note, be patient and he'll lose his money sooner or later, hopefully to you and not someone else.
Hand 3 - fold pre, end of story.
Hand 4 - I don't hate the 3bet pre flop Kxs and Axs are excellent bluffing hands pre flop, but if you're going to bluff pre flop, then raise more. gizmondouk is not folding to your raise when it's this small, and we want him to fold because we have a weak king. He makes it 8c, so raise 3x and make it 24c as a standard size. Flop, just bet, don't get cute in 3bet pots. I would be betting my entire 3bet range on Kxx and Axx flops, If we have AQ here, we want to rep AK and get a fold from hands like 66. Just bet everything you can have on this flop. Bet about half the pot, it's a dry flop so no need to go big. I don't like your turn call either, I think we can raise this for value. River is fine.
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