AJs UTG

[Maulik]

I'm playing 5/10 limit and pick up AJs UTG.

passive table, I don't like limping and I don't enjoy raising w/ such marginals holdings terribly OOP. What's the standard line at a passive table?

[Harv72b]

My standard move is to raise--especially on a passive table, a lot of your opponents are going to call with weaker/dominated hands even after you raise. So let them make a bigger mistake by calling 2 rather than one preflop, and try to endure the suckouts when they come. And while AJs obviously plays better in a short-handed or heads up pot, it does okay multiway, too.

I'm trying to think of reasons why it might be correct to limp/fold in this scenario, but I'm coming up blank. I mean, yeah, limping isn't horrible, but it's not the best EV move here, either. And AJs is just too purdy a hand to fold without a raise in front of you.