Blufcatching river: which hands to choose?

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Blufcatching river: which hands to choose?

Blinds: $0.10/$0.25 (6 Players) BN: $72.09
SB: $32.72
BB: $20.77
UTG: $6.90
MP: $20.60
CO: $26.50 (Hero)
Preflop ($0.35) Hero is CO with 8 8
UTG folds, MP raises to $0.50, Hero calls $0.50, BN raises to $2.80, 2 folds, MP folds, Hero calls $2.30
MP weak (32/16) player opening. Not sure whether or not it's optimal, yet decided to play a mixed strategy, flatting approximately this range:
88-22,9d9h,9d9s,9d9c,ATs-A2s,KJs-K8s,Q8s+,J8s+,T8s+,98s,87s,76s,65s,54s,AdJd,AhJh,AJo,KQo,AdQs,AdQc,AhQd,AsQh,AsQc,AcQd
Button is a very agressive 'regular', squeezing a ton (17,41% on the button out of 41 times and 10%+ other positions).
While deciding to flat or 3bet I wasn't paying attention to this, which would most likely resulted me in playing a different strategy against the open. But as played, and now after the squeeze aware of the wide squeezing range of the button, I figure I would continue something like this:
88-77, 9d9h, 9d9s, 9d9c, ATs, KJs, QJs, JTs, AdJd, AhJh, KdTd, KhTh, QdTd, QhTh, Td9d, Th9h, 9d8d, 9h8h, AdQs, AdQc, AhQd, AsQh, AsQc, AcQd
Flop ($6.45) 5 6 5
Hero checks, BN bets $3.20, Hero calls $3.20
OTF I just want to continue wide enough to not let him insta-profit too much. I add some non-pair, non-Ahigh for some more boardcoverage on T/J/Q and esp. K runouts. Something like this looks reasonable? (calling 32/47 combo's, folding 15/47).
88-77, 9d9h, 9d9s, 9d9c, AdJd, AhJh, KdJd, KhJh, KsJs JdTd, AdTd, AhTh, AsTs, KdTd, KhTh, AdQs, AdQc, AhQd, AsQh, AsQc, AcQd

I randomize between suits, so don't pay too much attention to the specific suits, although I obviously prefer a BDFD over a non-BDF.
Turn ($12.85) 5 6 5 4
Hero checks, BN checks
River ($12.85) 5 6 5 4 T
Hero checks, BN bets $66.09 and is all in, Hero calls $20.50 and is all in
OTR, I figure I can valuebet Tx+ and overbluf by betting all non-pair/non-Ahigh combo's, thinking he will tend to overfold in this situation.
I don't want to valuebet too wide and often, since my range has so much SDV/blufcatchers and I want to protect those hands by keeping somewhat stronger hands in it.

So after my check I figure my range to look like this:
88-77,9d9h,9d9s,9d9c,AdJd,AhJh,AdQs,AdQc,AhQd,AsQh,AsQc,AcQd

After villain shipped all-in for a little over 150% pot, I was quite unsure how to rank my blufcatchers.
My main objective was to prevent his blufs from auto-profiting, since I wasn't positive either way him being over- or underbluffing here.

So to achieve this, I want to call ~40% of the time, so close to 9 combo's out of the 23 left.
In real time, I decided to call my best 'absolute' hand strengths, basically 88+ (which are 9 combo's here).

Afterwards, I felt like AQ-high is pretty much equal strength to 99 here, since I don't expect villain to turn AK and pairs into a bluf.
Were this assumption to be true, those A-high hands might become more efficient blufcatchers, given they block some potential valuehands like AA/QQ/JJ, whereas 99/88 don't block any valuehands.
The problem is that the assumption isn't 100% accurate (most likely). And the less accurate it is, the more disastrous it becomes to prefer AQo as a calling hand over 99/88.

Anyways, pretty cool and uncommon spot, I reckon. Love to hear what you guys think of it

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