OK, I'm the first person to acknowledge faults with my own game, and I encourage people to point out the ones I miss - there are many. I play full time, I spend about an hour every morning going through game logs picking my play apart from the previous day. In this particular hand tho, what you said just doesn't fly.
In the first instance, I hadn't played a hand in about an hour, I was a rock on that table, precisely because it was a loose table. I was waiting for an opportunity to extract chips on a favourable bet, it came and I feel I played it right. I'm a tight aggressive player, and that's absolutely the winningest type of play in a NL game. And I was willing to take the risk, very much in my favour based on his previous play, and laws of probability, that he hadn't flopped a set. I knew this guy was dumb enough to be calling on a 4 card flush or inside straight and I was going to make him pay way above and beyond pot odds for the privelege. And let's not forget, had I known the guy was holding jx4h, I'd have WANTED him to call, because in the long-term that's a hugely profitable bet to get called - so him calling is a good result, not a bad one.
Which is another thing, I'd have been 'allowing' the player to suck me out if I slowed down betting, not the other way around. Putting him all in at the turn is doing everything that's humanly possible to shut out a draw, it's the exact opposite of what you're talking about. In fact, if I can see a valid criticism of how I played the hand, it's that I should have bet less precisely because i WANT him to call with draw, provided I'm not giving him pot odds.
But that's all irrelevant anyway, he can't 'call my bluff' with nothing. He didn't have a pair, he didn't have a high card. Whether I'm bluffing or not he still has to beat me, he wouldn't beat me on average with two randomly dealt cards, nevermind considering my pre-flop raise, and esp factoring me betting into him. His chances of being ahead, even against a stone cold bluff, on that board, are miniscule.
I'm going with the 4 year old theory

I hope he invests his winnings wisely, rather than fluttering them away on toys and candy
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