What leak do you have in your game that you know is a leak but you refuse to correct it and why?

Propane Goat · Sep 4, 2025

I'll start off: I have a bad habit of limping in from the SB with weak Aces, especially when multiple villains have already limped in.

Of course, this is the worst possible position to play a weak Ace from post-flop against multiple players, and whenever I hit top pair it almost invariably seems like I'm dominated and losing chips. I haven't corrected it because I suck at many things and poker might as well be on the list too

Sunz of Beaches · Sep 4, 2025

Propane Goat said:
I'll start off: I have a bad habit of limping in from the SB with weak Aces, especially when multiple villains have already limped in.

Of course, this is the worst possible position to play a weak Ace from post-flop against multiple players, and whenever I hit top pair it almost invariably seems like I'm dominated and losing chips. I haven't corrected it because I suck at many things and poker might as well be on the list too

Totally legit to limp along with a small ace from the sb if multiple limpers are already in the pot. What else do you want to do? Hand is too weak to make a big raise and you are playing out of position postflop. Fold is obv no option for only half a BB and with those pot odds. So there is only the good ol' limp left 🤷

My bad habit is limping in first with mediocre hands that have a lot of potential. Small pocket pairs from early position for example. suited brodway cards from early position. K10 suited utg comes to mind 😅

Forza0416 · Sep 4, 2025

I rarely limp. I was taught to put pressure from the start 💪

neverbluff0799 · Sep 4, 2025

My leak is probably my love for punting sometimes… I often barrel the flop and turn, get snap-called, and already know I’ll get called on the river, but I refuse to slow down because it’s just so fun when they finally fold the river :

Mart1194 · Sep 4, 2025

Play SB's armor with weak medium hands. I need to fix that!

Another thing, punish utg limp. I generally see it as TRAP, fish limp utg with AA

TeUnit · Sep 4, 2025

From the looks of the CC games, this thread should be full of players saying "I enjoy open limping especially with players sitting out".

bowserdon · Sep 4, 2025

Slow playing AA

najisami · Sep 4, 2025

When I have a hand and someone keeps calling my bets, I pay them off if they raised me on the river even though a straight or a flush got completed. I always want to see if they really hit it, and the result is always bad news.
Never corrected this leak and I'm honestly not sure why. I just have to stop doing it. It's like trying to quit smoking.

Tero · Sep 4, 2025

I pretty much know the right course of action in many cases but way too often I fail to go through with the correct steps. I do not refuse to fix this but something built in me sometimes stops me. It's not fear, or at least I don't think so. Playing right makes me happier than loosing wrong.

It might be something to do with risk taking

But playing a playable hand feels often futile when raging opponent goes pre-flop all-in when we are still 50BBs deep. But if takes to play like an idiot to win one, then I'm probably leaking from all the wrong holes

ThorSAutor · Sep 4, 2025

My biggest, most stubborn leak is calling too many all-in bets on the river when I know I'm probably beat, especially in a tournament.
Why? It's pure, unadulterated curiosity.
I'll be in a big pot, I've got a decent hand—maybe two pair or a strong top pair—and my opponent, who has been tight all game, suddenly shoves on the river. The logical part of my brain is screaming, "They have it! They're not bluffing! Fold!" But there's a little voice that says, "What if they don't? What did they have? I have to know!" So, I throw in the chips, get shown the nuts, and feel like an idiot for a few minutes. I know I should fold, but I can't resist the urge to see what they were hiding.

pentazepam · Sep 4, 2025

Definitely tilting.

I tilt if I play the lowest limits (2NL) just for "fun". I tilt when I get a bad beat in freerolls, even. I tilt when I play for play money, for heaven's sake.

I refuse to correct it, as I have had the problem throughout my entire poker career. I have tested every psychological technique, like mindfulness, and not being result-oriented.

I just have to accept the tilt and play through it. It usually only lasts for an hour or so.

mattiebumpo · Sep 4, 2025

My biggest leak is chasing straight and flush draws. I will try to cut down on it but sometimes it is just too tempting to try to hit. Most of the time, it gets me into trouble.

Brigistul · Sep 4, 2025

A big mistake on the Flop is that I go ALL IN with a High Pair, and I need to fix that! I’ve lost many hands like this when, at showdown, I found out they had a bigger pair than the high pair on the flop!

Rldetheflop · Sep 4, 2025

My biggest leak I refuse to fix is overwithdrawing I'm always broke so $50-100 means a lot to me so often I become under rolled. Luckily I've done well recently so I was able to withdraw $ 170 and still be rolled for my bread and butter tourney the $5 stt's

YLAN · Sep 4, 2025

My biggest leak at this time is not playing focused. The freerolls start in the very early morning in my timezone thus my alarm wakes me up to play at a difficult time in which I have to play half-awake & sleepy. To correct it is to probably sleep very early of which I refuse at this time to enjoy my evenings.

ROYALROAD · Sep 4, 2025

In tournaments, when things start to look bad, I often tend to make reckless all-in bets. That's one of my observations about player behavior.

fundiver199 · Sep 5, 2025

Propane Goat said:
I'll start off: I have a bad habit of limping in from the SB with weak Aces, especially when multiple villains have already limped in.

Dont even think this is a leak, at least not in tournaments with an ante, which gives you better pot odds. Admittedly this matter less, the more people have already limped, but it still matter some. So while I think, it would not be crazy to ditch the worst offsuit AX hands, if multible people have limped, the leak is mostly postflop, where you need to take a fairly defensive line with top pair no kicker in a multiway pot.

I dont have any leaks, that I "refuse" to correct. But when I analyse my tournament hands with ICMizer, a mistake I find again and again is folding as the chip leader on the bubble of a SnG in spots, where its profitable to jam any two cards or almost any two cards. The likely reason is either not paying enough attention when multitabling or natural risk aversion, because it feels really bad to blow a chip lead by jamming a really bad hand and getting called.

Poker Orifice · Sep 5, 2025

my biggest leak is being a bankroll NIT! I should move up but instead I don't as I like playing where the play is weaker and more often than not I walk away with a winning session.

wushibala · Sep 5, 2025

My leak is when I look at my stack and realize I could just sit tight and make it to the money. I end up folding even strong hands like AK, JJ, QQ, and often the result is that I bust out just a few spots before the payouts anyway. 😅

Dmitriy_rus7 · Sep 5, 2025

My weakness is AA and AK I can't help but go all in with them😂

hardongear · Sep 5, 2025

My biggest leak or weakness is I like the challenge of going from 2nl-50nl full-ring cash. When I could probably beat 100nl full-ring cash as I don't believe the competition in low-high buy-in MTT's is any better than the competition at 100nl full-ring and I can hold my own in those MTT's. A part of this is a simply also have zero desire to keep 5k+ for an online bankroll even if I can afford it. I enjoy spending my profits.

Cheers!!!

hobojim1247 · Sep 6, 2025

My biggest leak is playing to many hands in the wrong position. I start out really attentive but slip into old habits if I let my attention slip i relapse into old habits

mammadduke · Sep 6, 2025

I very rarely bluff. So when I do bluff nobody will ever know if I’m loving or not cause I won’t show my cards

antonis32123 · Sep 6, 2025

I keep on playing some draws even oop even without good odds initially , sometimes up to the river . I need to play more carefully oop , fold such rng set up hands to lose many chips . I chase more the straights especially the non nut ones than I should do . In the freerolls and the micro nano stakes players bluff a lot or try to lead the bet procedure , both frustrating things . I try to call only with very good odds , I have to try more on this

Gritz18 · Sep 6, 2025

I have the habit of only completing when I'm in the SB, I would say that this is not a leak, because as I only play freerolls, the hands usually come to me limping, so the price is very cheap to see a flop, if the bb, raises or goes all-in it is a quiet fold.😉😁

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