Best Finish Yet!!

Today I played a $1 tournament on Full Tilt.  There were 1376 players.  The payouts in this tournament are not as flat as in "The Ferguson" meaning you need to finish higher to cash.  I busted out in 43rd place.  Prior to going broke, I was 6th in chips of the remaining players. I had built up my stack by making large raises in position when other players had shown weakness.  Here is an example.  I was at one table where the hijack seat would always limp into a pot when it was folded to him.  I would raise to 5 or 6 times the BB, everyone would fold, and I would take down the pot.  I was also able to make this same play from the SB when a single late position player limped.  The other wasy I was accumulating chips was to see a lot of flops in position when it was a small field.  At one table the player 2 to my right would constantly try to take down the pot with incredibly small bets (the minimum bet or 2x the minimum bet)  I could reraise him with air and he would fold.   I don't know if he was betting a draw and trying to see another card cheaply, or if he was bluffing. 

  This is the hand that led to my undoing.  I had AK 2 behind the BB.  I raised 3.5 times the BB.  A middle position player who had about 2/3 of my stack thought for a long time before calling.  I put him on possibly a middle pair.  The flop was a Q42.  I bet 2/3 the pot hoping that if he had a middle pair the Q would scare him away.  He thought for a while and finally moved all in.  It wasn't that much more for me to call, so I did.  He showed QQ for top set.  I was very surprised.  This was one of the last hands I would put him on.  I thought he would have reraised me preflop.  I made a couple of mistakes in this hand:  I didn't pay attention to his stack size, if he wins the pot, my stack will be substantially smaller.  Also, I didn't have position and probably should have been able to check-fold the flop when I missed.  After this hand, I only had about 10 BB's left I was losing almost 20% of my stack per orbit with the blinds and antes as high as they were.  I finally had to make a stand with A4 suited from the cutoff.  The BB called with AJ and I was eliminated.  I finished 43rd out of 1376 players.  Overall I am happy with my play.   I constantly put pressure on the small stacks and the only time I was all in for my tournament life was the last hand.  I was paid $3.48, but I think if I had gotten away from AK when I should have, I could have made the final table where I would have made at least $20.  First place was paid just over $300.
My bankroll is now at $79.11.  I am hoping to make it over the $100 mark this week and then I can start taking some shots at $2 tournaments (following the rule of not buying into a tournament for more than 2% of your bankroll).