Foxwoods 2500

Played the 2500 at Foxwoods yesterday, think it got 120 or so people. Played three mentionable hands and was out in time to late register for the warmup on Stars (like 1:30 or so).
In the first hand I had AThh and raised early/middle position to 300 @ 50/100. Saw a 5 way flop (1500) of Ax6xJh and I bet 800 after sb and bb check. Guy to my left whos been super active calls and tight button calls after some thought, both the blinds fold (3900). Turn is the 7h, I check, check, button bets 1500, call, I call (8400). River is the 3h making my bd flush and I feel like I'm up against one pair hands and its really really hard for me to have some kind of bluff here so I only bet 3200 expecting to get a call. First guy folds.. and button tanks for awhile, asking if I have AThh and I figure hes prob folding his AQ or whatever, then he tanks a little longer and folds 66 (set) face up. Ouch.
I get up to around 19k before this next hand. Facing a 3k bet from the same guy on the Td7s5d 5s turn into a 3k pot I put him in for his last 2600 or so w/ JJ and he has AT but binks an ace on the river.
The third hand took place early in the third level. I have QQ in EP facing a raise from fairly active kid to my right who I had flatted a bit earlier. He raised to 550 @ 100/200 with a 12k+ stack and I have less than 10k. I really want to get this hand in but I figure best way is to flat and hope one of the shorter stacks makes a move or someone gets frisky as its super hard to get action reraising there (vs a worse hand). Goofy guy to our immediate left (and somewhere around 10k chips) insta makes it 2500 (jackpot), folds back to young kid to my right who makes it something super cheesy (5700 I think, coulda been 6700) and I should be able to fold my hand fairly easily but with the combination of trying to stick to my original plan of praying for action/reraisers goofyness/uncertainty of 4 betters ability to get cute/idea of lying in bed and playing big Sunday online tourneys and ordering room service (ok mostly this last one) I decided to get it in and original raiser had AA.
That kind of sucked getting off to a good start and busting so fast but oh well. The word on the street is the 5k tomorrow shouldn't get very many people but I'm playing it anyways. 10k two days after that.