My Return to Tournament Sunday

I followed my original plan and was up and ready and at the Rio a little after 11 am. I walk up to the registration cage with my 15 crisp $100 bills and asked to buy into the noon mixed tournament. The lady looked at me a little weird and then said "Do you mean the one at 5 p.m.?". I stood there for a few seconds and told her I would have to get back to her, and then cursed myself for not paying attention. So $20 worth of cab rides later, I was back in my condo signing up for some tournaments on Pokerstars. The Stars Sunday Million was $1k this week, and I've never really had great success in the tournament, so I proposed to my dad to put up half the buy-in in exchange for 30% of my action. He agreed and I was signed up.
I played well for basically the whole tournament, constantly staying well above the average and showing down very few hands. I eventually hit a road block and went card dead a little before the money, and I was blinded down considerably. It also didn't that one guy at my table kept shoving for 30-50 bb's about 2 or 3 times an orbit, and I had to lay down a few of my steal attempts. I squeezed into the money but was a short stack. I then doubled with 77 vs KQ and was in reasonable shape. A few hands later I got KK and one big stack called my raise. An Ace naturally flopped and he called my continuation bet and I was forced to shut down and fold. I did get to execute one of my favorite plays while I had some chips though. One guy limped early position and small blind completed and I checked my big blind with T4 off suit. The flop came down something like Q82 with two hearts. It checked to the early position limper who put out a 2/5 pot size bet. The small blind called and it was to me and I raised it just over 3x the original bet. The both mucked quickly and I had a nice steal. This play is very similar to the preflop squeeze that so many people use nowadays, but it is very rarely used on the flop or later streets. You have to have a decent read on the other players in the hand, but when used effectively, it is very powerful. I ended up busting in the third level of money when I ran my QQ into the all-in donkey's KK. Nothing I can do there with my stack size. I ended up cashing for just over $2800, and $1800 profit. I ship my dad's original $500 plus his cut of $600 from my profit to him, thus giving him a nice return of 120%. I kept my $500 and made $1200 on top of that, so not too bad of a day. It would be nice if I would start cashing in more things that I buy into directly so I don't have to keep shelling out my profits, but that's life until my bankroll gets bigger....