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Pure genius!

This is textbook case of how a Big Stack should play at FT. Your chips are worth less because you have more of them and for every calm and patient villain who will wait to make a stand with JJ+ more will wilt under the pressure and fall to the need to act as M shrinks. As your stack continues to grow with their chips you turn up the pressure on the remainders. Everyone is feeding the other guy to the alligator.

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This is an important point to remember, especially at final tables: While everyone wants somebody to stand up to the big stack, almost nobody actually wants to do it, because taking a stand with a hand that might be a slight +cEV favorite (and might NOT) could cost them a lot of real money equity if it busts them.

So I scoop small pot after small pot until someone stands up to me. Then I either bust them or double them up, and either way I get right back to it, because if I double them up those chips come from all the pots I've stolen.

(That last paragraph is basically paraphrasing an idea in Super/System. It's still astoundingly effective.)