Poor MATH Skills

played in the MATH last night with a very poor showing. i donked off about 1/6 of my stack early on just trying to bluff a pot and was called with mid pair flush draw. then about 30-40 minutes into the tourney, on my first good hand of the night, i decided to gamble and try to get an early big stack. in mid position i found pocket jacks and shot out a normal 4x raise of T240. action folded to AlCantHang on the button and he re-raised to ~T960. immediately put him on AK because i've seen him do this before and had a decision to make; i could fold and wait for a better hand but that seems rather weak, i could call and hope that there are all low cards, or lastly push and hope that my pair holds up. normally i'm very conservative and i would call and go from there but not playing much poker recently in the past month i decided i wanted to see some action, so i pushed. he calls and just as predicted he turns over big slick and immediately picks up an ace on the flop. i don't improve and i'm down to ~T250. about 8 hands later i push with A8o and Al finishes me off with pocket sevens. i know the safe route would have been to call his re-raise and go from there seeing that i had a very good read as to what he was holding, but this time i wanted to take a gamble. unfortunately it didn't pan out. oh well, there's always next time. cya all at the BBT freeroll tomorrow.