4th Place at $300 Bounty Tourney

I went to SouthPoint for the 6pm black-chip bounty tournament yesterday. I was overall happy with my performance and the result, but I think something I'm still a little frustrated is having to constantly be short-stacked for the entirety of the tournament. I hit 100k very briefly before succumbing to the big stacks applying pressure. My current excuse is being card dead, but there was one hand where I might have been better off shoving.

I had TT from Early Position (EP) and opened with 2.33 BB. It folds around to the BB who has me easily covered and makes the call. The effective stack size (mine) at this point is around 30 BB. It's heads up to the flop and it's 887 with 2 diamonds. BB checks to me and I bet 3 BB, which is about 60% of the pot. BB 3-bets to 7.5 BB. I have an overpair, but what I'm concerned about is the paired board. An 8 is not out of the realm of possibility. Flush draw? Open-ended straight straight draw with the 65? It's possible she was trying to apply ICM pressure since we were not too far from the bubble. There were still 10 or 11 people (I'm forgetting) left and they were paying the remaining 6. I told myself that I was going to find a better spot and so I ended up folding. Looking back, I'm cringing at my decision but I think in the long run, it was an ok decision. Would have loved to have had a bigger stack going into the stone-cold bubble, but I knew that I could trust myself to play proper short-stack poker and hope that the other players will make mistakes later in the tournament.

There was a spot I was in where we're just 2 away from the money and UTG goes all in for about 25-30 BB. UTG+2 jams all in with about 1.5x his stack size. Everyone folds to me and what do you know: AKo. At this point, I only have about 15 BB, but if somehow UTG+2 wins the pot, then we're in the stone-cold bubble and the guy to my right has fewer chips than I do (10 BB). I end up folding and you won't believe it: 88 (UTG) vs KK (UTG+2). KK take the pot down, no Ace came on the board (not that it matters). So now we're down to the stone cold bubble and I'm basically folding every hand. The short stack eventually gets knocked out and we're all in the money.

One of the highlights was tripling up with QQ and was up against KQ and T9s (???) where we were all in preflop.

I want to work on being able to get to the bubble with a bigger stack and also not playing too scared and not giving in to ICM pressure. I think I'm overfolding in certain spots and I need to keep in mind that min-cashing is great, but it's even better to set yourself up to win the tournament.