Horribly misplayed AK! Help me please!

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With 50BBs, I'm getting it in here once I flop TPTK. Pot flop, push turn.

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I think you should move down man. No offense, but you can't win with such a fundamental misunderstanding of how to bet size postflop.

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I'm a 50NL player. What did hero wrong here? I guess he had to bet more on the flop and checked the turn? Could you enlighten me here?

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The main problem is that he only has 50BB to start the hand. With such a short stack, if you raise pre with AK and flop TPTK you almost always have your stack in the middle.

It's not that his thinking about pot control and not neccessarily wanting to play a big pot on this board are incorrect - they just don't apply when you are shortstacked like he was. With a full stack I think is approaching the hand correctly.