Something I commented on the other day was that players in tournaments are often foolish in allowing small stacks to recover from a hopeless position, by calling their shoves unnecessarily. In this tournament I could not catch a hand to save my life, and was down to less than 400 chips fairly early on, but shoved this hand and was called by no less than 4 players, enabling me to quadruple my stack and get back, sort of, into the game, albeit with diminished status.
However I did manage to squeak a top ten finish out of the money, in a tournament of 32 players, and was eliminated on the same hand as the highly ranked player who was leading the tournament at the time of this hand. So not a bad result, all in all, considering that I only had one pocket pair (55) and just one AQ and one AJ, both unsuited, in the tournament.