$10 NLHE 6-max: Triple Barrel Bluff in blind vs blind

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10NL 6-max zoom on pokerstars. Villain is relatively unknown, although I did previously tag him as a "lookup artist", meaning someone who floats the flop liberally in order to take it away on the turn or river when checked to. The sample size is small though so I can't necessarily trust this read.

BOOM Hand Replayer

Hero (SB) has $12.18
Villain (BB) has $58.28

Hero is dealt Ks 2s
Hero (SB) posts $0.05
Villain (BB) posts $0.10
4 folds
Hero raises to $0.30
Villain calls $0.20

$0.57 in pot
Flop shows Td 5s 4h

Hero bets $0.39
Villain calls $0.39

$1.32 in pot
Turn shows 7c

Hero checks
Villain bets $0.75
Hero raises to $2.20
Villain calls $1.45

$5.52 in pot
River shows Jh

Hero bets $5.00

What are your thoughts on this triple barrel bluff? Can I credibly represent a strong hand with the line I took? How likely is the villain to fold here?
 
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So... you tag him as a lookup artist, and then try to get him to fold? Do you see what's wrong with that?

Also, what can you represent on a dry board like that? Sets are too hidden, so this looks more like you're overplaying top pair or an overpair. If he hit this board, I don't think he's folding.
Since he called your check/raise, I really don't think he's folding anything he has.
 
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You don't think Tx is folding to this 50bb river bet?

Lookup artists have an obvious weakness: if you either barrel the turn or check-raise the turn, they'll generally fold. In this case, he didn't fold the turn, but I figured I could take him off hands like QT, KT and AT with a large river bet. Besides, I wasn't 100% sure that he was a lookup artist. He only did it once to me.
 
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I don't think I'm a fan of this. Sure it'll work sometimes, but we can't just decide "I'm going to bluff this hand!" which it seems like you've done, and against the wrong opponent too.

First question is, why are we raising preflop with a meh hand? Limping is fine, and we can even call a small raise because K2s is going to be ahead a lot of the time. Raising bloats the pot, you're out of position, and he'll call with ATC (correctly, I might add).

After the flop, OK with the Cbet. He might fold something like 33, 44, and maybe Ace-high if you're lucky. But against this opponent, probably not right?

Turn: He's not folding any pair that he called on the flop with, right? 7 is not a good barrel card.

River: I guess let's just continue the bluff, we got this far. I don't think he's folding a pair, given your description. Your line looks mad polarized and super suspicious. What're you representing, QQ+?

Tl;dr Pick better spots for bluffing. This can get through, but we need to bluff when we think it will get through (or at least has a high probability of doing so).
 
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board is dry low and rainbow , your line postfop can be very strong in this spot but more players BVB play srtaight forward with any SDV
It will be hard for you throw your opponent with a hand , especially on DeepStack
 
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In this situation as well ppl get much stickier. You got real lucky
 
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the problem with a play like this is you are bluffing with very little equity. So if called on the turn you are stuck in a bind. Almost no chance to hit the best hand so you're going to have to either check/fold or shove and pray. It's not a great board to do so after he calls the turn cr. The biggest problem is there are not many draws so his calls are going to be mostly made hands. Your biggest hope is that he folds Tx after calling the turn cr. J is not a great card for him generally but not really a card that should scare him either. So overall I don't like this play.
 
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I can see barreling if we turned a spade an Ace or maybe a 3 but to bluff like this with almost no equity is pretty spewy.
 
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I dont like it cause you have asolutely no equity like Iplay says above. It's even worse since you mention hes a LUA.
 
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I can't figure out what hand you're repping, and what hand you expect that is in your opponents range you want him to call with. I understand your read. Not to mention it's a pure bluff with little equity and no showdown value.

As a side note, in today's games I'd fold the K2 a lot more often. People don't fold in the blinds nearly as much anymore and too much 3-betting also. If you think he folds a ton, then I'd say it's reasonable, but still borderline.
 
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