What decision would you have made?

[acesdazzler]

I need to know if made the wrong decision and how you guys would have played this hand.
Hole cards dealt -  qh ad and i flat called on the pre flop betiing.

Flop comes out  qd giving me top pair and kicker. So i raise 180 chips to get the pot taken down or so i think. Next move along the chip leader goes all in - he has 2500 chips already i have 583 left after raise. So i think for a while about what he could have before deciding to go all in - only to discover he had pocket nines and had hit trips. My vindication for the call is that i wouldn't have had a better chance to double through at a later stage. Did i play it right or would you have played it any different? Clearly i lost so you could argue it was a poor decision to call but what would you experts have done?

[TightEnd]

did you open limp pre flop with AQ? why? OK the chip leader doesn't pass his 99 pre flop to your raise and you are still going to do your dough, but it seemed odd to limp

You have to bet top pair, top kicker and of course that's the difficulty of being up against sets, they are disguised. but at least when you are re-raised you find out...you ask the question and it's certainly answered!

If you have no evidence beforehand that the chipleader has raised with draws or weak hands to "buy"pots, then what has he got? he can only have set. Granted it's a hugely difficult fold and you don't have enough chips to do so really

Remember the old maxim "never go broke with one pair in hold 'em"

now, on to the experts....