[kuro]

You did fine. Your read was that someone would try to steal and you'd raise all-in or that a big stack would play and call your all-in on the flop with next to nothing in an attempt to bust you out. You got what you wanted and then took a bad beat.

You ended up with something like a 61% chance to bring your stack to 2.5x what you started with and significantly improve your odds of advancing further in the money. That's pretty fantastic when you think about it.