Ya, his 3bet was just way too small for you to really have an easy fold...if he raised 42-48 like 'normal' then it's an easy dump.

I prefer to lead out because he might lay down AK and win risk free. If he raises , its an easy shove.

AKc is never folding in a raised and reraised pot after CBing.

stel's question concerning calling re-raises: I'll always call a re-raise up to 3 times the bet with an SC or PP (AKo is the only hand I'm really inclined to fold to a re-raise--being often way behind, often hoping to split and almost unable at all to hit a great flop against a re-raiser), and I really think it's asking for trouble to fold there. At least if I caught you doing that, I'd start re-raising you sometimes with 76s. If the re-raise is bigger, well, ok.

Anyhow, my current opinion is that it's very table- and image-dependent whether you want to raise T8s in the first place FR. But if you do it, I think you need to be calling a moderate re-raise. Otherwise, I think you start inviting problems with your looser raises.