Strange line that everyone hates

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The reason is playing large parts out of position sucks. AQ isn't that great of hand. You need to make this at least 30 if you raise, good chance you get at least one caller if not two. You are going to miss the flop 1/3 of the time and blindly throw a continuation bet of 50-75 in effort to take it down.

You will never get away from AK raising AQ out of position either if you hit your ace.

I would rather raise junk from the Button than AQ from the SB. AS most of the time AQ is worth as much as junk after the flop so you might as well be bluff/continuation betting with position.