I feel like I played this one really bad. AK crossed my mind but I didn't think he had it by the time I hit the river J. By the time I saw what was left after my river bet, I thought I needed to call at that point. How should I play a hand like this in the future? This is a fold to his reraise on the river, right?

Revolution Gaming Network - $0.04 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: $4.37 (VPIP: 28.01, PFR: 17.40, 3Bet Preflop: 6.30, Hands: 1,077)
Hero (MP): $3.97
CO: $2.66 (VPIP: 34.69, PFR: 20.41, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 100)
BTN: $4.17 (VPIP: 32.76, PFR: 26.72, 3Bet Preflop: 8.57, Hands: 120)
SB: $1.14 (VPIP: 55.56, PFR: 11.11, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 9)
BB: $2.55 (VPIP: 33.33, PFR: 2.22, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 45)

SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.04

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.06) Hero has J A

fold, Hero raises to $0.12, fold, BTN raises to $0.32, fold, BB calls $0.28, Hero calls $0.20

Flop: ($0.98, 3 players) 5 K A
BB checks, Hero checks, BTN bets $0.66, fold, Hero calls $0.66

Turn: ($2.30, 2 players) 8
Hero checks, BTN checks

River: ($2.30, 2 players) J
Hero bets $1.25, BTN raises to $3.19 and is all-in, Hero calls $1.74 and is all-in

Fold pre IMO. Dont like playing AJ out of position.

As played, I prefer a check/call on the river.

Thanks. This hand really bothered me. This is definitely in the top three sloppiest plays I've made in the last several thousand hands. Kind of couldn't believe I got stacked in the end.

Wouldn't c/c river.

It's kind of icky OTR tho, could see a b/c and a b/f

If this is one of the sloppiest plays in the last few k hands, you're not doing too badly

pre is fine since BB calls and it's a small 3bet

Well, thanks. It definitely is. It's the first time that I've felt like I actually spewed in that time frame. I'm still only eeking out a small profit here in the micros to start but I'm improving every day.

Just curious as to why you feel b/c is a better river option than c/c? What hands do you see villain taking this line with that are worse than ours that will call/raise a river value bet?

don't fold pre

shove river

Why? Same end result but now if I shoved I'd have had fold equity?