Quote Originally Posted by WhooFleuryScores
Leaks I recommend everyone watch out for:

1)Playing PP under 10-10 out of position
2)Playing Axs under A9s out of position
3)Cold calling raises with A-10s,PP under 10-10 without proper odds

And of course defending your blind in the wrong situation.
re: 1) & 2) ..... I agree that these can be leaks in certain (many/most) situations (i.e. right table and game textures etc.), but I also think it can be too restrictive to adopt hard and fast rules like this without considering the specifics of the situation. Are we talking a tight/loose game, NL or LHE, full ring or short-handed, ring or SNG/MTT? There's too much context left out of the situation to make generalized rules like this useful to most players. I can think of situations where'd I'd have no problem breaking rules 1) & 2).

For example, to say that you should never play 99 UTG is just over-generalizing way too much IMHO. There are certain games conditions (e.g. very tight middle stakes LHE game) where this is an easy, automatic raise situation for me.

Another example, I'll play A7s in early middle position at a very loose passive table where PFRs are rare and 6 or 7 players are routinely seeing the flop. In fact, I'll even play it from UTG at some very loose, passive tables. At a tighter table, in EP, I'm folding hands like this before the flop without a moments hesitation because this is where "you'll win the minimum and lose the most" type arguements have a lot of merit.

Granted, you will put yourself in more marginal situations "laggin' it up" like this. You'll have to adapt and learn to avoid many of the common pitfalls and traps. You have to, as they say, "play well" after the flop. Which might mean flopping a pair of Aces without some additional draws etc. and find the ability to fold your TPWK to signs of aggression from your opponents where you can feel pretty confident that you don't have the outs to continue. (btw, this isn't a playing style that works well in multi-tabling online scenarios, but can be very profitable in some (not all) B&M games).