River bluff with missed draw after turn checked through?

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River bluff with missed draw after turn checked through?

Blinds: $0.05/$0.10 (6 Players) BN: $17.59 (Hero)
SB: $15.38
BB: $9.55
UTG: $10.00
MP: $9.79
CO: $19.40
SB is unknown. First hand vs that current villain.
Preflop ($0.15) Hero is BN with 8 T 6 A
3 folds, Hero raises to $0.35, SB raises to $1.10, BB folds, Hero calls $0.75
Flop ($2.30) Q 5 7
SB checks, Hero bets $1.69, SB calls $1.69
Here check might have been better in retrospect to avoind CR. I see the mistake here even though I think it is close. If FD decides to CR, we loose a draw to 6-nuts outs (which might be replicated though, but less likely as SB 3-bets)
Turn ($5.68) Q 5 7 J
SB checks, Hero checks
Here I started to feel that my fold-equity is decreasing. Villains range has narrowed from the flop. The bad thing is that 9 is not anymore nut-out.

Maybe barreling here is ok, because our equity-loss vs CR is now smaller.
River ($5.68) Q 5 7 J 7
SB checks, Hero bets $3.20
Main point is here. I feel that I too often try to bluff in spots like this. Of course my 1/2 pot bluff need to work only 1/3 of time. But I have a feeling that what could villain possibly have here.

Checks at this kind of spots in my opinion have been quite often check-call spots. I was hoping that I could get him fold hands like AQ, but I am not sure how these hands would play.

General thoughts about bluffing at river

How do you also generally see bluffing at rivers with missed draws after you have chosen more passive line by checking through some hands. Most opponents correctly feel quite often that I am bluffing relatively often and routinely call it down.

Constructing a good strategy for complete range, bet sizing?

However in this kind of spots I am not only betting missed FD or SD's, but in my value range there might be also hands where I have sevens. Or in other spots I might have a hand that I think that is too weak to value-bet 3-rounds and turn is too CR-risky. So in these spots I often have polarized range between missed draws and thin valuebet hands.

What should bet sizing be for complete range here? Generally I think that by betting pot, I can include more bluffing hands while keeping villain indifferent in calling. Then by bluffing smaller I have ability to bluff more profitable, if villains don't adjust to bet-sizings.

What do you think about these pro's and con's between small in big bet-size in this kind of spots?

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