You're losing me here. How did you pot control in that hand? You say "by playing like this" but I don't see anything special here except a donkish opponent who raises TPHK and can't lay it down when he is obviously beat..

About the pot being small.. it's always relatively small when you raise and another guy calls, no? TPTK is a good hand, there is a possible flush draw out.. you don't want to play for stacks but eh, checking looks really weird here to me. (except if you have a read that he'll jump weakness and fold to strength constantly)