109 rebuy, chipleader, 20 man left

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Ok, so I'm unexperienced in this.
I made some final tables in 55 $ events, won some 180 man SnG's, ran deep in some other events, but now...I'm confronted with being chipleader in a 109 rebuy tournament.
Imagine, 20 people left, we are in the money and my stack is about 280K, while average is about 120K.
BB is 3000 chips and everyone, litterally everyone is playing.
No scared money at the tables.
People are shoving light and calling light.
We are in a situation of playing to 19 regs/pros...and I mean real pros.
I have no stats but gosh....only f***ing good players.
How to play ??
I mean, I'm just a beginning moron and I didn't have an idea how to deal with this.
Know, I'm almost never playing just to move up.
I'm playing for the front end of a Finale Table.
Folding to place 12 and being blinded out is not in my dictionary.
If I'm with 20 left, I go for first, but how to play these guys ?
If I raise , they reraise, if I fold they will go over me in chips and I will be shortstacked after a while.
I know the question is kinda vague, but how to deal with a situation of being one of the leaders of the board with 15-20 players left, while the others don't mind to go to the rail ?
Waiting for monsters with the risk to fold to 10th-12th place or play agressive with the risk to suck out.
I really didn't know what to do and was acting like a rabbit in front of car...
 
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Dont be afraid of good caliber players. Play your game and use this to your advantage, you know there solid regs, exploit this and use it against them. They might not know you and you can get away with murder by playing back at them.
 
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Ha lol, I see what you mean.
Experienced yet it's the non-pros I have to be aware of.
Yesterday had a tournament I met 3 Pokerstar pros at my table.
Mattie de Meulder, after that J Thaddeus and finally Barry Greenstein.
I've watched them play at my table for a while and paid good attention.
Unfortunately just before the bubble ran into JJ having AK and didn't improve.
However, actually watching these guys closely , is very valuable for a rather unexperienced player like me.

So probably it was an expensive lesson, but I know now, besides reading books, playing myself and asking advice, railing good players is very important.
 
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Don't let them affect your game. You are the chipleader for a reason, you either got lucky or played good. Be confident, don't let them bully you, and keep grinding!!
 
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Ok, so I'm unexperienced in this.
I made some final tables in 55 $ events, won some 180 man SnG's, ran deep in some other events, but now...I'm confronted with being chipleader in a 109 rebuy tournament.
Imagine, 20 people left, we are in the money and my stack is about 280K, while average is about 120K.
BB is 3000 chips and everyone, litterally everyone is playing.
No scared money at the tables.
People are shoving light and calling light.
We are in a situation of playing to 19 regs/pros...and I mean real pros.
I have no stats but gosh....only f***ing good players.
How to play ??
I mean, I'm just a beginning moron and I didn't have an idea how to deal with this.
Know, I'm almost never playing just to move up.
I'm playing for the front end of a Finale Table.
Folding to place 12 and being blinded out is not in my dictionary.
If I'm with 20 left, I go for first, but how to play these guys ?
If I raise , they reraise, if I fold they will go over me in chips and I will be shortstacked after a while.
I know the question is kinda vague, but how to deal with a situation of being one of the leaders of the board with 15-20 players left, while the others don't mind to go to the rail ?
Waiting for monsters with the risk to fold to 10th-12th place or play agressive with the risk to suck out.
I really didn't know what to do and was acting like a rabbit in front of car...

BTW, how did you finish in the tournament?
 
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BTW, how did you finish in the tournament?

I screwed up by playing to loose and finished 15th.
And that's exactly a big leak in my game.
By thinking, I have one of the big stacks, I'm gonna bully and they'll respect my raises.
Well they didn't respect me enough,played back at me and I have to admit, actually outplayed me.
I should have been a bit more patient and wait for my spots.
After all I was deep with 90+ BB.
Learned another lesson, so I hope I'll do better in the future.
 
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