[Aaron W.]

I'll always raise AJs. Whether I raise AJo depends on the situation, but I'll generally raise it.

Raising AJs is good because you don't care what happens afterward. If you get a bunch of coldcallers, that's great. You've got an excellent multi-way hand. If you don't get a bunch of coldcallers, that's great. You've got an excellent hand with lots of short-handed value. AJs is a strong enough hand that limping it to encourage a multiway pot will NOT increase the hand value enough to beat raising.

The reason for raising AJo is to try to encourage villains to fold so you can get a short-handed pot. You can go back and forth on this depending on the table you're at. If your preflop raise will not be effective in limiting the field (you're going to get 3-4 coldcallers), then you can just limp. This has some postflop benefits:

- The smaller pot means villains' preferred play of calling has a better chance of being incorrect)
- Villains are more likely to have called with Ax hands, which you dominate
- You don't feel compelled to spew chips because you raised preflop