To start with, I would like to point out that you should generally avoid playing in the blinds as much as possible, unless you have a premium hand. The primary reason for players getting caught up in blind play is because they felt that they had to protect the money they had put in the pot through the small or big blind. However, by doing this you are putting yourself in a tricky spot, as you are likely to be playing with a sub-standard hand out of position. You are far better off letting the trivial amount of money go, rather than losing a much larger amount of money trying to defend it.

The best way to treat the blinds in Texas Hold'em is to distance yourself from the fact that it's your money that you have put in the pot. After you have placed your blind in the middle, it now belongs to the pot, and not to you. Everyone at the table is going to have to pay the blinds at some point, so it all levels out. If you can't stop yourself from needlessly becoming attached to a hand simply because of the fact that you put a few chips in the middle before you got your cards, you are going to have a serious leak in your game.

A common spot that you will find yourself in from time to time is having the button or small blind make a raise in an attempt to steal your blind. This is especially common in tournaments and can get pretty tedious. However, the way you should respond to these plays all depends on the size of your stack and the position of the raiser.

If you have a large stack, you do not particularly want to be calling a raise too often. It's not such a bad idea to call a small blind raiser as you will have position, but calling a raise from a player on the button is a big no no. If you have a marginal hand, you are going to be out of position to someone that could have anything, so throw the option of calling out of the window.

Against a button raiser, you are just going to have to suck it up and throw away your hand the majority of the time. However, if you do get a premium hand, you may well want to reraise rather than call, just to let the button raiser know that you mean business, and hopefully deter them from continually raising you in future. The button raiser may steal your blind a few times, but they are going to get burnt if they keep playing with fire, just remember that.

If you have a relatively short stack in the blinds, you break your decision down to either pushing all-in or folding. If you have a enough chips, you may well be able to pull off and all-in bluff against a regular late-position raiser, but this all depends on the stack sizes and the type of player you are up against. At the end of the day, if you feel that your hand is better than your opponents button or small blind raise, it may well be worth pushing all in. If not, just fold and wait for a better spot.

In general, play from the blinds in Texas Hold'em is best avoided unless you have good reason to play back. If you were to track your stats from every position at the table, you would eventually find that the small and big blind are losing seats in every hand, and there is very little you can do about it. Don't become too frustrated about it, as it is the same for everyone, even the best players. The best approach from the blinds is to limit the amount you lose, rather than go out and attempt to win as much as you can from every hand in the blinds.