How can you make this call and sleep at night?

[Zybomb]

Making bets in relation to the pot is key -- but YES stack size sometimes is taken into consideration when betting. And betting a smaller % of the pot which is a large % of the pot, can be a correct play. But.... he had more chips than you? How is 900 a threat to his stack (after calling 1500 preflop?)

You raise 2.5 BBs with AK (Id prefer 3 but I guess this is ok)

You bet the flop almost 50% less than what you raised preflop? This is never ok

there's over 5:1 on his call here, and he had stack odds... it's not as bad of a call as you think....more specifically its a bad bet by you

But regardless it's a freeroll

And what do you mean you were doing good with 7.5K and blinds 300/600, you only had a little over 10 BBs, while you arent technically 'short yet' I wouldn't imagine this is good(unless the avg stack was around this amount/lower and blinds moved quickly)