Weakness in my game or just bad timing?

Hi all, found the site a few days ago and been reading up as much as I can. I'm currently playing at absolute (taken BR from $25 deposit to $202 at the moment playing .25 NL) and had a few hands last night that I need to post for some analysis but had a different one to talk about here.

Playing in a $5+1 tournament last night that paid top 5 (top 6 getting entry to freeroll on sunday) and we were down to 8 people left. I had around $5k in chip and around middle stack, blinds 200/400 and got dealt AA.

At this stage I raised to $1600 and big stack (around $11k) went AI, I immeadiatly called. He turned over 22 and then proceeded to hit 2-6 straight pulling 4 runners. At the time I figured if I didn't bust on the AA that I wasn't playing right (with the AI I pegged him as trying to steal the pot or on KK-AA and was basically considering that I had the best of him or would split) but now I'm wondering wether it was the right time to play it or not, given that if I had folded I'd have been down close to short stack.

So yeah, guess my question for discussion is if I did the right thing in making the call under any circumstances, if I made the right call in that circumstance or if I made the wrong call and should have just sat back until 2 more were knockedout and I was ITM.

As an aside, I find my major weakness in tournaments so far (only finished ITM in MTT twice out of about 10+) is making a move to try and build a stack as we get to the final 2 tables with good hands and busting out to something like last night or taking KK AI to AA.

Thanks for any advice and look forward to discussions

Originally Posted by Knytestorme

Playing in a $5+1 tournament last night that paid top 5 (top 6 getting entry to freeroll on sunday) and we were down to 8 people left. I had around $5k in chip and around middle stack, blinds 200/400 and got dealt AA.

Too much poker left to fold AA. Tough beat.

If you're not willing to put your chips in, HU, w/ AA, when are you going to!?!? Its a tough beat I think. Its disgusting because you were so close to the money, but think of it another way that had he not got lucky, you would have doubled up and are in a great position to win the thing, not just "get placed"