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I made a huge error and half-potted it, inducing an all-in with his AKo. He caught his K on the turn and crippled my stack. A few hands later I was out.

At the time, I wrote it off to the standard cruelty of poker, and it wasn't until about an hour later that the thought dawned on me that perhaps my 1/2 pot flop bet was the root cause of my demise (for the exact reasons posters here have listed). Hopefully the lesson will stick.

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Pushing is good, but I think the half pot bet may be OK too. Inducing an allin bet from AK is a little more EV+ than getting him to fold. You are more than a 3-1 favorite on the flop. The reason for not making the half pot bet is not that you are worried about someone pushing with overcards. You are worried about them calling and catching a pair on the turn.

Villain should have pushed preflop with AK.