[samoleus]

cero, this is an outstanding point. Although I wanted to protect my hand and thus got myself into a tough decision, it is true that against this opponent, the correct play would have been relatively easy to decipher by his river action. For that reason alone (the difficulty of the turn decision as opposed to the relative ease of a river decision if I had checked back) might mean that it might have been worth giving up the equity in protecting my hand by just checking back on the turn. That is a really good point.