[THEjDonk]

Thanks for the response. The hand histories from Pokerstars has a feature that allows you to see what your opponent mucked at showdown. I'm not sure if I like this or not, but it let me know that my opponent called with a pair of queens.

I guess I was was lucky with my timing in this tournament. I had two legitimate pat hands that got action, and my pat bluff worked. I thought that my opponent in the first hand seemed pretty solid. The opponent in the second hand had made a lot of loose calls after the draw, so he might be a bit of a calling station.

Are "reactionary bluffs" based on game theory while "premediated bluffs" are planned in advance?

When I play a hand, I usually plan in advance if I'm going to try to bluff with it if I think it can't win in a showdown. I haven't really worked on a strategy that makes my bluff frequency game theoretically correct.

I think I'm most inclined to pat bluff with ten-high or worse. A "perfect strategy" probably includes bluffing sometimes when your hand has high cards in it too. Incidentally, tens and fives are more common in legitimate pat hands than aces. A pat bluff with ace high might be better if you think your opponent is more likely to call you with trip aces than smaller trips and so on.