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With your reads on villain, I don't mind your play at all. The fact that a turn card could bring a scare card is actually good for you, in my opinion. An aggressive player is going to see a scary turn with air and bluff some more. Even if he manages to hit a straight or flush, you still have outs.
So I think you played it fine and just got super-unlucky when he hit a river 7-outer (Q, T, or 7 and he's beating you). You were completely dominating his range on the flop and he had to hit runner-runner to beat you. And he did. There's not a whole lot you can do about it.
All that said, I might play it a little differently. I like 3betting him here if he ever folds to a 3bet. Even if he doesn't, it's a lot easier for him to fold to aggression in a 3bet pot (unless he hits a monster) than in a pot that he raised and you called.
Another place I might play differently is on the flop. You said that your plan was to bet out or check/raise the flop, and I like that idea. Even though we've hit a big hand, there are a lot of things we can do on the flop to exploit an aggressive opponent. We can make a donkish small bet on the flop that he will be super-tempted to raise. We can check/call and then donk the turn. We can check and then raise like one click more than a minraise: if he reraises, you can ship over, and if he calls you can lead small on the turn and make it look like a donk player trying to draw cheaply. These types of moves piss off players and from someone who's aggressive, you might get a lot of crazy bluffs that allow you to take down a huge pot on the flop or to stack off on the turn against a worse hand than trips, instead of having to take the line that you did here.
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