Regarding the most recent game:
9: Not sure this is urgent. However, if it is, I think approaching from below is better, since white has the option of harassing the corner around P4, otherwise. That said, I think I prefer to approach at F17, to cover ground faster.
11: Good! While the last move here may not have been urgent, this is. Pressuring the right-side white stone is well worth it. Your opponent's previous move, by the way, was really tiny. For your opponent, a play on the right side was bigger, then the top, then the left side.
13: While this is an active move, it removes a base from a group that already doesn't have room for a reasonable base. Instead, Q3 takes the corner and pressures the bottom white group. Remember, that kick is normally not recommended unless you have a pincer stone in place... which you do. Preventing white from settling below makes it so that he has a weak group on both sides of your stable corner group. After that, you can consider any splitting attacks, later.
33: Nah, I prefer the move you went with originally. White can't settle ideally, and the corner really is the biggest place for points.
51: Sente enough to be fine, I think?
34: While reasonably likely to settle, this move will do so for very few points (on the second line) and in gote. I prefer the one-space jump for white. It's worth noting that there are still weaknesses like M18.
37: I prefer turning at J18. It stabilizes your group fairly permanently, and in fairly good sente, as well.
61: I really like the idea behind this move. You probably don't need to play under the invasion, because white has to run. If white connects, you can stop and play underneath him. However, white cannot invade deeper until he is connected and alive, so focus on keeping him separate, like you did in the game.
73: This move is good, and gets profit for your attack, but at this juncture, I think the red mist would roll in over my vision, and I'd have to chase more aggressively with the cap at F13. While it makes points/reduction less immediately, it does give a bit more thickness to attack the left with, in addition to pressuring the running middle group much better. As it stands, you're ahead, so perhaps your less aggressive move is better. However, if you kill that group, there seems to be no recovery for white, and the cap seems kind of unpunishable.
75: This move is very big as a reduction. However, to chase the group, I would hane out to E13. If you can get white to force you to take thickness here, his stones will die automatically.
83: Now that white connected, you must defend around E12 to keep your reducing stones.
91: Since J15 will lock you in, this move doesn't seem to buy you much. I'd look for big endgame, like C2, C18, M2, then T2.
128: T10 should kill.
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