Quote Originally Posted by BorisTheSpider View Post
The pot is 10bb pre when the action gets to me, my average in my database for each time I have AK is like 1.5bb, so taking this down pre is a seriously good result.
While this is true (and we've talked about it already) that doesn't mean you are bluffing. I actually think a lot of your thought process in this hand has been a bit confused because you can't decide if we are bluffing or not.

[We have a tonne of showdown value pre and post] + [We aren't ever getting villain to fold a better hand] = [We cannot possibly be bluffing]

If we aren't bluffing then we are value betting. We can still be rooting for folds when we are value betting, but those folds are never going to come from better hands than ours.