u/biotechnes

I've been trying to incorporate more unconventional zero equity bluffs into my game, let me know if this is a bad example. 50NL 6max 80bb eff

CO limps in, I raise it up to 4bb with 6d4d at the BTN. I know this is pretty loose but this was a super good game and I was stoned so I'm just trying to play anything decent. SB and CO flat.

(13BB) flop comes 9h4hKh. SB leads for 4bb, about 1/3. CO calls and I decide to put in the raise to 15BB. I think most players' raising range here is strong made hands that want protection from a 4th heart, flushes, and bluffs with high single hearts. If I include this type of hand in my raising range, I can still have bluffs when the 4th heart comes out whereas most players will not. I also like using this hand because it blocks pocket 4s, basically the strongest made hand besides a flush that CO/SB can have and one of the only non flush hands that will peel on a flush completing turn. SB calls, CO folds.

(47BB pot) turn is 3h, SB checks and I bet 19bb/40% pot. He folds. I think I don't really need to bet much bigger than 40% with this bluff because there's only a couple cards in the deck that will call and I'm more likely to have all of those. So it should get through pretty often. By that same tken I think with this bluff I would pure give up if they called this turn bet.

Thoughs on this bluff/gameplan? I think doing it multiway was definitely pretty stupid but yeah. Maybe heads up it would print?

friends were watching me play 50nl last night, they clowned me for making this fold. 6max ~120bb eff

open up Ac8c to 3bb in the LJ. BTN, SB, and BB all flat.

(12bb pot) flop comes AdJhQs. Action chekcs to btn who bets 4bb. SB folds, BB calls, and I call as well. I think it's generally pretty unlikely that A8 is the best hand here but BTN is a maniac and BB also knows this so I call.

(24bb pot) turn is Ah, checks through. I don't think I should have any leads on this card after I flat flop.

(24bb pot) river is 8d. BB checks, I bet about 10bb hoping to get called or raised by whatever bullshit BTN has. BTN does indeed raise to 53BB, dollar signs fill my eyes but then BB rips in his remaining 115BB. I think nobody is ever bluffing in this spot(at least at 50NL) and they're not doing this for value with anything that isn't a boat. He can only have Ax boats (88 wouldn't have made it this far, QQ and JJ would've 3bet pre) so it's either A8 of spades, AQo or AJo. Not getting the odds so I just fold. BTN tank calls, BB has AJo of course. My friends said I was stupid and a nit for folding this, I think this has to be a super easy no brainer fold right? How did I play the hand in general?