This has been bothering me

[aslowjoe]

Payout top ten get a prize worth $10,000.
11-30 get a prize worth $5000

To me the secondary prize is almost as valuable is the first prize.

40 people left. my stack is about 40,000. I am about 12th. ave is around 25,000. I could most likely fold my way into a secondary prize.

blinds 1200/2400 antes 25
MP who is the chip leader with 80,000 raises to 7200.(no read as he has just been transfered in)

All fold to me in the BB AKs. I Call
pot around 15,000

FLOP is A95 rainbow. 1 of my suit.
I bet 7000. he folds.

was this awful considering the circumstances?

under a normal prize structure how should this have been played?