dallam
Legend
Loyaler
Hi 
The perfect decision to shove here, you protected your strong hand against two players, and at least picking up the blinds.
People tend to play UTG position in very different ways, cause its a hard position. If the villain could see that some of you had low chips and may go all-in, limp-shove can be fine. Most of the times AK would raise from UTG tho still, avoiding multiway actions and fals view on their hand's strenght. In your case I would make a note on that player, that he/she is able to limp in from UTG with AK in a table like (xy) blinds. And move on, cause you made a right move by making them max pressure.
The perfect decision to shove here, you protected your strong hand against two players, and at least picking up the blinds.
People tend to play UTG position in very different ways, cause its a hard position. If the villain could see that some of you had low chips and may go all-in, limp-shove can be fine. Most of the times AK would raise from UTG tho still, avoiding multiway actions and fals view on their hand's strenght. In your case I would make a note on that player, that he/she is able to limp in from UTG with AK in a table like (xy) blinds. And move on, cause you made a right move by making them max pressure.
nuttea
Visionary
Bronze Level
after the bubble with such a hand, it was you who made the simplest and most correct decision. otherwise you won’t play this hand, and it’s better not to wait for hands, so don’t worry, you just got unlucky that you hit the hand stronger, but it won’t always be like this
BelFish
Legend
Loyaler
On push/fold charts, we shove AQ (not from blinds) against UTG (no matter how he entered the hand) with a stack of 8BB or less. Against two, it is possible and even tighter should be played. It's hard to say offhand, you have to look at the icm calculator. I meant very tight charts from one of the poker schools. And there the game is not on the bubble. On the bubble you have to take into account many additional factors, such as the degree of tightness of the players who entered the hand, their style of play, some kind of notes, fold equity, etc.
BelFish
Legend
Loyaler
I think short stack on bubble should be played even tighter than on push/fold charts. Especially against stacks bigger than ours. If our stack allows us to wait until ITM, it's best to do so by playing very tight. And with a large stack, on the contrary, you need to play looser and put pressure on the average stacks. And against small stacks, you can most likely play using the usual push/fold charts, i.e. you also need to play more carefully against them, without much expanding the range.
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RustyRed83
Legend
Platinum Level
You did nothing wrong, the poker gods were not on your side this time. A lot of people are not sure how to play AK from UTG. They end up limping, then call a raise. Of course, he could have had mid-pair, or some other ace rag type hand, or was he trapping? Who knows. Just unfortunate he had you out kicked. Could you have mucked? Not really, in fact it would be disappointing if you did muck.
ObiwanJ
Rock Star
Bronze Level
I would have done the same. At 10 BB left you're looking to get all the chips in especially as you're not likely to have a better hand before you run out of BB's and even if you did get lucky and get a better hand you wouldn't have the chips to make enough out of the hand. You made the right decision imo.