really weird AJ hand 3/6

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he mucked, and I took the pot down.

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Leave this part out as an argument and you will be respected more. It is irrelevant.

You're right, the vast majority of the time, you won't fold a better hand in a SS game when raising AJo UTG. However, AJ plays better against one or two inferior hands than it does against 5 inferior hands. I don't think the SB raise is horrible if you truly believe you would have seen a raise from a better hand than AJo, but I personally wouldn't raise it there unless I was supremely confident in my post-flop play.

Basically, you know all those limpers are coming along and with that many opponents, I'd rather not build a huge pot with a hand that is likely to only make a pair of Aces, decent kicker. Or top pair, best kicker on a bunched up board.