Quote Originally Posted by surviva316 View Post
your hole cards are probably literally the last consideration in whether or not you fire more than one barrel (after stack sizes, reads on villain, ranges, board texture, position, etc), considering the whole purpose of bluffing is to not make it to showdown, and even so "good aces" are not the type of hands that would receive my preference for two reasons:

1. i would prefer a hand with more clean outs like a gut shot, or even bottom pair which has 5 outs to trips/two pair (whereas a good ace has 3 outs to top pair).

2. A-high very often has showdown value, especially when you have position and you're already at the turn (or further) against a fish. in fact, one reason why you may have been kind of accidentally showing profit by "bluffing" with these hands for long enough to make it a habit, is because you may have barrelled it and accidentally gotten more value out of the winning hand sometimes. it isn't uncommon for me at alllllll to bet something like AQo that missed the board for two streets for value.
I'm not sure I've particularly shown a profit to make bluffing a habit, I don't know what it is but all of a sudden when I started playing 6-max I turned in to an uber donk... Not necessarily with my starting hands, I play fairly tight, probably too tight for 6max but for some reason once I start firing bets I get it in to my head they are going to fold when quite often they've hit and I'm about to blow my stack for nothing.

I read so many articles and watch so many video's I really should know better.

I don't fully understand the whole betting for value thing, I see people mention it regularly but don't yet get it. I assume it's about getting money in to the pot while ahead but generally with A high I don't ever feel I'm ahead. It's probably a mistake but unless against only one opponent I tend to think someone has hit something and so I try to push them off whatever it is they've hit provided I feel I can. The problems start when my 'feeling' is wrong (quite often so far in 6max).