Been playing at 5NL for a little over 5k hands, so not too long. Just wanted other people's perspectives on if I am overplaying my hands and setting myself up for failure or if I am just suffering from painful run-outs. Here are a few examples, if anyone has any advice on how to play some of them differently, feel free to let it rip. Thanks!

Hand 1:

No Limit Hold'em $0.02/$0.05
Winning Poker Network
6 players
Formatted by pokercopilot.com: Poker HUD for Mac and Windows

Stacks:
UTG - UTG ($5.00)
MP - MP ($10.03)
CO - CO ($10.37)
BTN - BTN ($7.24)
SB - Hero ($2.81)
BB - BB ($5.00)

Preflop: ($0.07, 6 players) Hero is SB with Q K
UTG raises to $0.20, 3 folds, Hero calls $0.18, 1 fold

Flop: 7 Q K ($0.45, 2 players)
Hero bets $0.22, UTG calls $0.22

Turn: J ($0.89, 2 players)
Hero bets $0.66, UTG raises to $4.58 (all-in), Hero calls $1.73 (all-in), Uncalled bet of $2.19 returned to UTG

River: 9 ($5.67, 2 players, 1 all-in)

Total Pot: $5.67
Hero shows Q K (two pair, Kings and Queens [Kd Kc Qd Qc Js])
UTG shows J J (three of a kind, Set of Jacks [Js Jd Jc Kc Qd])

UTG wins $5.39 from main pot


Hand 2:

No Limit Hold'em $0.02/$0.05
Winning Poker Network
6 players
Formatted by pokercopilot.com: Poker HUD for Mac and Windows

Stacks:
UTG - UTG ($5.00)
MP - MP ($5.00)
CO - CO ($10.03)
BTN - BTN ($8.05)
SB - SB ($7.26)
BB - Hero ($5.36)

Preflop: ($0.07, 6 players) Hero is BB with 7 5
3 folds, BTN raises to $0.10, 1 fold, Hero calls $0.05

Flop: 5 4 T ($0.22, 2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $0.11, Hero calls $0.11

Turn: T ($0.44, 2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $0.34, Hero calls $0.34

River: 6 ($1.12, 2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $0.87, Hero raises to $2.00, BTN calls $1.13

Total Pot: $5.12
BTN shows J Q (a flush, Queen high [Qs Js Ts 6s 4s])
Hero shows 7 5 (a flush, Ten high [Ts 7s 6s 5s 4s])

BTN wins $4.87 from main pot

Hand 3:

No Limit Hold'em $0.02/$0.05
Winning Poker Network
6 players
Formatted by pokercopilot.com: Poker HUD for Mac and Windows

Stacks:
UTG - UTG ($5.70)
MP - Hero ($6.66)
CO - CO ($5.79)
BTN - BTN ($5.56)
SB - SB ($5.72)
BB - BB ($5.00)

Preflop: ($0.07, 6 players) Hero is MP with A Q
UTG raises to $0.15, Hero raises to $0.50, 2 folds, SB raises to $1.25, 2 folds, Hero calls $0.75

Flop: J Q 9 ($2.70, 2 players)
SB bets $0.99, Hero calls $0.99

Turn: Q ($4.68, 2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $4.42 (all-in), SB calls $3.48 (all-in), Uncalled bet of $0.94 returned to Hero

River: 3 ($11.64, 2 players, 1 all-in)

Total Pot: $11.64
Hero shows A Q (three of a kind, Set of Queens [Qs Qh Qc Ah Jc])
SB shows J J (a full house, Jacks full of Queens [Js Jd Jc Qs Qc])

SB wins $11.06 from main pot

Hand 4:

No Limit Hold'em $0.02/$0.05
Winning Poker Network
6 players
Formatted by pokercopilot.com: Poker HUD for Mac and Windows

Stacks:
UTG+1 - UTG+1 ($5.51)
MP - MP ($7.53)
CO - Hero ($5.48)
BTN - BTN ($5.00)
UTG - UTG ($4.77)
BB - BB ($5.22)

Preflop: ($1.50, 6 players) Hero is CO with 4 2


Flop: 4 2 8 ($1.50, 6 players)
UTG bets $0.75, 3 folds, Hero calls $0.75, 1 fold

Turn: 7 ($3.00, 2 players)
UTG bets $1.50, Hero calls $1.50

River: Q ($6.00, 2 players)
UTG bets $2.27 (all-in), Hero calls $2.27

Total Pot: $10.54
UTG shows 7 7 (three of a kind, Set of Sevens [7s 7d 7c Qc 8d])
Hero shows 4 2 (two pair, Fours and Deuces [4h 4d 2s 2h Qc])

UTG wins $10.02 from main pot

Definitely feel like I should have raised flop in Hand 4, but not so sure about others. Thanks again for any feedback, really appreciate it.

river c/r seems optimistic in hand 2 vs that sizing

This is all my perspective, take it with a grain salt...

I would only ever make decisions based on the information I have on my opponents. Is this guy a Reg? Is he a Fish? What is your feeling on his play style? Does he only ever show down with the Nuts? Is he a calling station? I mean, you know all this, I'm just putting it in here for perspective of the types of questions that go through my head in certain spots.

Hand 1: You played it good up until the turn. With that Jack hitting the board, I understand your bet, but when you get jammed on in this spot, It would have made me second guess my decision. What would he be jamming with here? The Jack completes straights if he was going in with A 10. With him having Jacks, I wouldn't see how he could have played that any differently. I also think that based on your stack size here, it gave your opponent a reason to jam (You should always top up if you have the funds to do so).

As a side note about topping up: What if you had a monster? Would you not want to get every possible dime you could when your holding the best of it? AA, KK, QQ., I have mine set to auto top up when I get below 100 BB. Makes it easy not to have to think about it. It also really depends on your BR. What type of BRM do you follow?

Hand 2: I think this is okay. Based on how the hand played out, I don't think you were ever considering to fold after the Turn based on your bet size. I think I would have checked on the flop, bet roughly the same on the turn as you did on the flop ($0.11), and maybe bet the River like you did on the turn ($0.34) on the basis of completing the Flush. You might have been able to save yourself a little money there, but it's really hard to say. I would chalk it up as a "Bad Beat", you just got "out-flushed".

Hand 3: I honestly think I wouldn't have done much differently here. Seems like a pretty standard "Bad Beat" again. The only thing I can think of that I might have thought about is maybe when he checks on the Turn, I might have checked back, but again, this seems like the type of spot you wouldn't be able to get away from...so, I get it. What's to say if you did check back and the River came out the 3 like it did, he wouldn't jam? Would you have really been able to fold? Chances are 97% of the time, no one would have.

Hand 4: Same deal here as with 3 (Although no info on Preflop stuff), I would chalk it up as another one of those awesomely delicious "Bad Beats". After turning 2 pair on the flop, and the fact that the board is really low, it would be hard to get away from too (especially on the River when the Pot is $6.00, and he goes all in with $2.27).

I would say all-in-all, pretty standard. Thanks for posting, super interesting to go through.

Hope this helps you out,

Good Luck man!