Playing with a big lead

[madjek]

I am very accustomed to playing short stacked, and often get back in it. A couple times recently though, once in a 100 player $1.10 buyin on bodog (may last dollar there) I shot out to a huge lead (10000 chips, average < 2000). I am not used to this , so wondering what those of you who accomplish this more often handle it. If you raise big preflop, you either steal small blinds amounts or get called by a big hand. Do you sit back and watch for a while unless you get super cards or keep pushin. I put pressure on with middle pair, got reraised allin, with what I already put in, pretty much had to call, lost a chunk there. Same thing happened couple more times, next thing I knew, was down to 5000. Should I have sat back and let field get smaller while they caught up?

[Assistanc3]

at the $1.10 MTT jumping out to a big chip stack I would focus on playing late position but would limp instead of raise with suited connectors in early position. Take advantage of the stack for calling flop/turn bets while managing the pot early allows you to get out of raise wars. Others may see your limp play a sign your wanting someone to raise. (limping as a blocking bet)

unless your very aggressive I would nurse your stack but raise all-in with anything better then AKs. You can afford to race, question becomes how much gamble do they have.

also you should be opening up other big stack tables and see how they are playing