$5 NLHE 6-max: Facing aggression in 3bet pots with decent hands

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This post is about 3 different hands in 3bet pots. I'm rusty and feel like I misplayed probably all 3. No tracking software for me at the moment, so bear with the formatting please. I also play on bovada so comprehensive stats aren't really doable.

1st hand: reads were minimal in this hand. Table was loose, but not overly aggressive.

Preflop:
Hero (100bb) is BB with A9dd.

UTG (75bb) call, fold, CO (120bb) raise to 3bb, fold, SB (100bb) call, Hero raises to 12bb, fold, fold, call

Flop (pot 28bb): QdQc3s

SB (88bb) check, Hero (88bb) bet 15bb, SB call

Turn (58bb): Kd

SB check, Hero check

River (58bb): 3d

SB all-in, Hero ??

2nd Hand: table had been generally loose. I had not seen villain show down a hand, nor be aggressive enough to really stand out

Hero (100b) is MP with AsQh

UTG (90bb) raise to 3bb, Hero raise to 9bb, fold, BTN call, fold, fold, UTG call

Flop (28.5bb) AhJh3c
UTG bet 15bb, Hero call, fold

Turn (58.5bb): 6c
UTG bet 59bb, Hero ??

3rd Hand: the table had become short-handed, only 3 players left. I knew very little about villain as he had only recently sat down.

Preflop:
Hero (100bb) is BTN with As3s

Hero raise to 3bb, fold, BB (100bb) raise to 5bb, Hero call

Flop (10.5bb): AcJs9s

BB bet 5bb, Hero call

Turn (20.5bb): Jd
BB bet 20bb, Hero call

River (60.5bb): Kc
BB all-in, Hero ??

In the first hand, I feel good about all the decisions until the river. In the second hand, I'm not sure if I should even be 3 betting pre in that spot or flatting on the flop. Third hand I'm not sure if I should raise either flop or turn...
 
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Too many hands. So you get 1 sentence advice.

1) Check back the flop, please do not ever fold the river.
2) Call the preflop raise.
3) This hand is the fun one. I think I sigh and fold, but then villain will show me his AQ. Well played though.
 
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I'd just post one hand at a time.

1) At 5NL it's fine to bet the flop here. People will call 3-bets without a plan, so this is fine. River is an easy fold to the over shove. Most micro players I think are potting here with Qx, and an over shove is 99% the nuts.
2) Is there a reason to 3-bet here? I'd tend to call. As played fold the turn. I don't think you're getting that bet sizing on a split pot, so you're probably pretty far behind.
3) I'd tend to raise the flop for value and also to pot control the turn (so I can check if I don't hit a good card for me) and take control of the hand. You have a good chance of getting the turn and river checked if he just calls the flop.
 
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Thanks for the input! Based on your recommendations I am going to create three separate threads and ask mods to close this one.
 
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