my 2 final hands

[orenthal]

9 people started the tourney and 7 were left at this point. blinds were 50/100.
i was in the big blind with KJ [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] and i had about T1875.
MP1 (T975) limped, as did MP3 (725), everyone else folded to me and i checked.
Flop came K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] J [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 8 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
I checked and MP1 went all in for 875. MP2 called with his 625. I called as well. MP1 flipped over A9 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] and MP2 flipped over QJo. Of course the next two cards were spades and i lost to the flush. after this hand i had T900.
next hand i was in the small blind and had 66. had a few limpers and i raised 2x the bb. the button (big stack, dont know how many chips but more than me) called. flop comes 6 4 2. i checked, button checked. turn was a Q. i check, button checks. river comes 5. this was somewhat scary but i figured the only hand that could beat me was pocket 3's. i bet 100. button raised 300. i had 600 left in front of me and i reraised the rest of my stack. of course he had the pocket 3's.

on both hands i was trying to induce some bets, but apparently i made a mistake by not being more aggressive. did i really blow both of these, or was it just bad luck?