Kind of hard to determine why you got knocked out of a single table tourney just by looking at the cards you were dealt, since there are about 100 other factors. Seems to me that you got a decent amount of playable hands, especially considering that it was a tournament where you have to take a few extra chances (I don't know if you're aware of the differences between tourney strategy and cashgame strategy). If it was a problem connecting with the flop with the playable hands, then that's another story. Also, it really depends on how you were playing the hand preflop: reraising to isolate, raising to thin the field, limping in with mediocre hands when the odds warrant, etc.