MovieFX said

 

I made an odd tiny re-raise on the turn thinking that it would buy me a lot of information cheaply. I expected to get re-popped if he had a K (discounting weak Kx due to pre-flop action) or better. 

‘Buying information’ should never really be a part of your thinking when evaluating a potential bet. You should be thinking about your opponent’s range, which is a theoretical concept about which you can never truly gain information – you can only gain information about your opponent’s hand, which is a results-oriented, short-term approach that can be harmful to your game. Forget about gaining information about your opponent’s current hand – it’ll lead you down the wrong path.

I think your line preflop and on the flop is more or less fine. On the turn, I strongly dislike your play. Villain is unlikely to lead into two players with worse than Kx, and you have blockers to some of villain’s most frequent draws. You also have a third player in the hand, left to act behind. I’d go so far as to say your turn raise only ever gets called by better hands, and gets all worse hands to fold – this is basically what always happens when you ‘bet for information’.

I also disagree that villain would re-raise you with Kx or better, since it’s a pretty good spot for them to call and then either check-call or check-raise the river (since your raising range should be reasonably polarized to strong hands or bluffs…even though it’s not, because you actually raised a middle-strength hand, which is what caused you problems).

I agree with checking the river, because I think you virtually never get called by worse when you bet here. In fact, you probably stand a better chance of getting KJ to fold the river than getting JJ to call.