finally broke through

First final table. Turned $1 into $25 at a MTT on Party. 8th out of 1440. That's makes two in a row ITM. Hopefully I'm getting better and not just getting lucky. I survived 2 really bad beats without losing a huge amount of chips. I was never more than a coin flip behind on any showdown which I thought was pretty good. I had to lay down AQ once and QQ once which is something I would have never been able to do prior to reading stuff here. My favorite hand was when some guy kept moving all in with any pair. He had 300K chips I had 260K. I finally caught him when he went all in with 88, trying to steal my blind, and I had QQ. Second favorite hand was when I broke a calling station by somewhat slow playing AQ. He had 70K and I had about 130K. I minraised preflop and he called. flop came 2JA and he opened , I called. Turn was Q. He opened, i minraised, he reraised. I called. River was another Q. He went all in and I had him....
THANKS FOR ALL THE GREAT ADVICE THAT COMES ON THIS BOARD!!