Limping with AA in NL and in tornies

[Talking Poker]

That's not it... It's not that I can't lay it down, because I can. That just falls into the "losing with it" category. All I'm saying is that it frustrates me, and that can't be good for my game (at that very momemt).

Let me give you two non-extreme scenarios and try to illustrate my mental health after each of them:

1. I get AA, raise, get one caller, make a CB at the flop and he folds. I won some chips, and I'm feeling good. I just had AA. Things are going my way.

2. I get AA, limp, 3 others follow. The board seems harmless enough, but I run into major resistance when I lead at the pot (usually a big raise on the turn) and now have myself in a tough spot. I ended up folding or maybe losing a pretty big pot to some goofy two pair, like J8. Now I'm mad at myself for not just raising preflop and taking down a small pot there.

I understand that there are many other scenarios, including ones where I limp in and take down a big pot and certainly ones where I raise preflop and lose anyway... I just prefer to "play it right" - that way, even if I lose, I'm not second guessing myself and mad at myself for getting cute.

Does that make sense?

I definitely think people SHOULD limp in with AA from EP 10-20% of the time.... I just have trouble doing that myself.