semibluffing: try this at home?

I was playing someone's home game for the first time ever last Thursday. It was a NL hold 'em cash game with blind of $0.25 and $0.50. Most players bought in for only $20, but the host usually bought in for double that, so I followed suit. Our mutual friend characterized him as a hyper-aggressive player who nonetheless would fold to strong raises post-flop. With that as a background, let me tell you about the hand!

Pre-flop, it was folded around to the cutoff, who raised to $1.50. I called with 79 suited on the button, and the host called from the BB.

Then the flop came down:

6d 8h Ks

The action went: BB checks, CO bets $2, I raise to $6, BB re-raises to $12, CO folds, and then I pause to think. Based on what our mutual friend told me, if I put in another raise, I should have a ton of fold equity in this spot. That, plus the equity of my draw, should have made this a very +EV spot to reraise. Thus, I put in a reraise to $32 total. After thinking for a while, BB just calls. The turns comes a Tc, BB puts me all-in for another $17 -- I beat him into the pot. He flips over KK for top set! River came a 4c.

My feeling is that given the information that I had, as well as the way the hand played out, I played it reasonably well. I certainly also lucked out on that turn. But that also illustrates why semibluffs are so much better than a pure bluff.