No-Limit Hold'em MTT (w/Bounties), in a Poker club...so this is all from my best recollection.

Just made the final table - 10 handed - first hand. Most players I haven't played with during the evening - so hard to judge how they typically play.

I'm UTG+1 with AA (first of the evening...was actually saying to myself that it'd be nice to get one).

I have ~180k chips.
5 other are in the same chip range (150k-200k)
Chip leader is Button with ~300k
UTG and 2 others have ~80-100k

So,

UTG (Short Stack) goes All-In pre-flop.
I'm next, and decide to push All-In also. I've so far always had a tendency to be aggressive and protect my hands - and didn't want to risk having too many players calling and having one hit a pocket pair or something.

Everybody else folds...UTG shows AJo, I end up winning the hand and getting his bounty.

Now, as I mentionned, I've always been one to protect my hands (unless I've got the nuts) and get people to fold instead of trying to get more chips out of them.

So, here I played it safe...made a bunch of chips (and a cash bounty), and basically had little risks.

What I could have done is simply called...hoping that maybe another would try to go all in to get me out of the hand, and possibly get more chips, but with a (slightly) higher risk.

Oh, and also...we were on the bubble - first 9 places were paying.

Just figured I'd get a feel of how others would have played that hand.

Deffinately if the stack to blind ratio was less, i.e you had more BB, I would be inclined to just call here. Maybe your reshoves would be given less credit later but you may well tripple up or more here. In this situatuion I would think about it while and call... Ignore the cash bubble IMO, unless the prizes don't go up steaply which they almost always do.

with AA i want as many chips possible in preflop.

in your case there was a bounty involved which affects you EV, but i cant be bothered to do the math. obviously, what you did is okay. i probably would have called if I though someone else would push though.

one thing i've realized about tournaments is you don't need to play as if you're scared of geting sucked out on. it happens.