9 max SnG 0.5$ hands

Hand 1
I think shove preflop is ok here, but I decided to make it more interesting and try to play AK postflop inducing someone to enter the pot by calling or shoving against the minraise
Considering the flop, I don’t think that donking and calling c/r was a mistake and I didn’t want to give the opp a free card that could put me to a difficult spot on further streets. C/r was actually smth similar to “I don’t want to deter you and I want to build the bank and get more money from you in the end” but calling seemed okey in position to see the turn action.
I didn’t really like the turn card coz I had given my opp the range that included both 9 and 8 and his check didn’t tell me much so I could bet fold to his c/r given the pot and our stack sizes. Pot control and checking behind seemed just fine.
River action could give us several hints on the opp holdings: “I’ve already given up on the turn and you can take the pot” or “I have something but I don’t like that J on the river and I am not ready to call should you shove” or “I have a big hand and I doubt you have something so may be I induce the bluff better”
Overall, I think check behind was the best move on the river.

Hand 2
Push is way better than minraise preflop with any two.
I am not really sure what I do with such flop, probably we play check/raise and fold to further action since the hand is too marginal too play on the bubble?

Hand 3
ICM tells me to go all-in straight away. The question is “ do I want to play a coinflip at the early stage?”
I have three options here: 1) fold and wait for a better spot to play a good hand, 2) go all-in and lose or get a good advantage at the start 3) call and see the flop. What is your exp in such situations and what would you recommend to do?

The first hand is pretty interesting with his weird check/min-raise. I expect most players will do this with a strong hand and he almost committing himself as well. Without any reads on him it would be a clear fold with still the short stack in it.

The second hand you can also consider to raise a little bit large, because you play the rest of the hand out of position. I think 2,5x would be better and then he will fold more. Pushing here is indeed +ev as well if he’s familiar with ICM and that’s at the 50c stakes questionable. I expect this isn’t the case if we deal with a random player on this stake. On the long run is it I think the best option to fold junk hands like 96o against a random 50c player in the SB.

The third hand I depends a lot with what kind of players we are dealing with. Against a random player that’s 3betting I would fold right away. In this particle spot the MP player is pretty aggressive so far and then I would mind to stack of here with the button in the hand as well.

Cheers,
SDK1987