Meh, it’s obviously not the ideal card, but straight draws still missed. He can fear that my calling range is strong and still believe that I’ll have a lot of air that beats his 7-high or whatever but can’t call a bet.

I don’t think I made this clear – what I mean to say is:

If he’s not betting 78 he clearly views your river range as super polarized. Once he bet/calls turn he very likely has improved on this river.

If he’s not going to bet a very strong here, for fear that your range is so strong, why do you expect him to bluff?

Obviously you don’t know he’s going to check a hand like 78 on this river, but I think the 9h either significantly increases his bluffing frequency with 1 pair hands worse than A6 that feels they can rep a flush / straight once you check b/c you’re never checking a strong hand, or he just valuebets every time your beat.

Without a read that he can turn made hands into bluffs, I dont see many bluffs in his range.

Given you that its rare that your C/R this turn, you’re saying you effectively rep a polarized range. Is villain really going to float and then bluff this river with A high?

Like, are you really C/Ring AJo here or something? Once he calls your C/R, I see very few hands in his range that need to bluff this river that we’re ahead of. Yes, a hand like 67 might decide you never check a value hand here and opts to bluff river, but otherwise, every draw got there, and your line is so unlikely to be a marginal 1 pair hand, that he’ll either beat you by checking back with SD value, or understand you’re never c/fing this river.

I guess its hard to compare him not betting 78 to him wanting to bluff JT if he got here, but what range are you putting him on that bet/calls the turn that wants/needs to bluff