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I hate playing OOP so much that I tend to fear building pots with hands like this out of the blinds, but now I am seeing and taking advantage of opportunities I've missed before with a lot more confidence because I have a solid plan going into battle.

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I haven't read the book yet, but I definitely echo your fear. I would usually limp here (maybe it's a leak), just because at 25NL or 1/2 Live, no one is folding out and people are going to call a raise, so I often end up OOP with two mediocre broadways in a multiway raised pot <--- not great even if you hit a card. I even hate playing AK from the blinds.

One advantage of limping or just checking AJ/AQ in the BB is that when you hit your ace, you get tons of action from donks behind you and you can just c/c them to the river while dominating their hand, because often they'll have ace-rag.