I have found myself paying off better hands on hands like this way to often in my poker career.
I played a very similar hand 2-3 days ago when I had the same hand (AK), and the flop came the same AT8r, and i got stacked by T8...
I don't know if this "new" line was much better but...

** Game ID 619152167 starting - 2005-12-20 23:24:30
** Wedding Day [Hold 'em] (0.50|1.00 No Limit - Cash Game) Real Money

- sauce123 sitting in seat 1 with $23.50
- robster24 sitting in seat 2 with $95.50
- Roblestein sitting in seat 3 with $276.15
- Pokerfigh sitting in seat 4 with $114.54
- sjprep100 sitting in seat 5 with $49.99 [Sitting out]
- SwollenMembe sitting in seat 6 with $29.50
- Dazen sitting in seat 7 with $98.50
- tk222 sitting in seat 8 with $91.85
- Flyhussla sitting in seat 9 with $88.30
- balos32 sitting in seat 10 with $33.95 [Dealer]

sauce123 posted the small blind - $0.50
robster24 posted the big blind - $1.00
** Dealing card to Dazen: King of Clubs, Ace of Hearts
Roblestein folded
Pokerfigh folded
SwollenMembe folded
Dazen raised - $4.00
tk222 called - $4.00
Flyhussla folded
balos32 folded
sauce123 folded
robster24 folded

** Dealing the flop: 10 of Spades, 8 of Diamonds, Ace of Clubs
Dazen bet - $7.00
tk222 raised - $28.00
Dazen called - $28.00

** Dealing the turn: Jack of Spades
Dazen checked
tk222 bet - $35.00
Dazen folded
tk222 mucks:
tk222 wins $97.50 from the main pot

End of game 619152167

At the time i was fairly confident i was beat (cuz the only hand i am really beating is AQ?).
But then i checked PT just before posting this, and it shows villain was 81/14 over 40 hands..!
Does this change anything?

thanks