Last night i was playing in my home game and had control of the table with 33,400 in chips out of the 98,000 in play. This was with 7 people still in the game. About 2o minutes had passed and after losing a couple pots i was down to 26,100. One of the pots i lost was a semi bluff (great play) by one of the other players. So back to my story, i was starting to lose control of the table because player A was not only raising and taking blinds, he was raising being called and winning hands to build a stack a little less then mine.Player A is a one of the two people at the table that i have the most respect for the way they play poker. One of my biggest threats, so i decided i had to make a move and slow player A down.

Player A raises in first position to 1500 with 200 and 400 blinds. One person folds i look down at

i re raise to 5000 Every body folds to Player A. Player A looks like he does not like my raise but also looks like he considered re raising. He decided to just call. At this point i am putting him on AK AQ pocket pairs from QQ all the way to 99. I took him off KK or AA because he is smart enough to now slow play them. The flop comes

Player A checks to me. This is a scary board for the hands i am putting him on but i can not check, so i decided to bet 5000. Player A thinks about calling and ask me to show him a card. I know i cant do this because he is to good and would figure out i had nothing. I do tell him i will show the hand afterwards but anyone who knows me, knows i do that with a bluff or the nuts. He decides to fold his hands. Player A says he had AJ but i think he lied during the game if he still tells me that today i would then believe it.
My thinking was if had come over the top i still have more then average chips with 16,100 average stack was 14,00. I knew this gone into the hands is the only reason i tried such a bluff against such a good player.