Guidelines on playing a multiway pot.
Again, we shall assume that four or more poker players will in the hand. For this instance, the flop will 
be a king, a queen, and a three of three different suits.
If no one will have bet as yet, bet if you were to have a king or better, as this would probably be the best hand. You could call a bet with a queen and a decent kicker. Your kicker would have to be a ten or higher, as it would be capable of emerging as a straight draw in addition to making two pair. However, if the bettor were to be a very tight poker player who bets only strong hands, it would probably be ??? to assume that your queen will not be the best hand. Hence, it should be folded. Advanced Texas Holdem!!!
When facing a bet, you should raise with an ace and king or better almost every time. Occasionally it would be proper to raise with lesser hands, though, when doing so would help protect your hand. For instance, in a five-way pot, if the first three poker players were to check, the fourth bets, and you would be next with a king and a ten, you must certainly raise. This would make it tough for poker players with hands such as an ace and jack to call behind you.
An ace and jack would pose some danger to your king and ten here, as it could catch one of three aces or one of three tens. If a ten comes, you would be likely to lose several bets, as it would make you two pair. Within Poker Thoughts. Poker players drawing with six outs would often be correct to play one small bet to draw. Your raise would take this play away from them, and would make it a blunder for them to carry on with the hand.
If you were holding a jack and a ten, for an open-ended straight draw, you would have to call. There is no point in raising with this hand, as all you would do is knock out the other poker players behind you. Since you would be drawing to the nuts, and wouldn’t win the pot unless you were to make your hand, it wouldn’t really affect your chances of winning whether there would be two or twenty poker players in the pot.
It would be good to keep everyone in, so that they could pay you off those times that you would make your hand. This would be one circumstance in which checking and calling would be the correct play most of the time. The main exception would be when you would think a bet might cause everyone else to fold, but in a multiway pot with two face cards on the board, someone would almost surely have a pair with which to call you down*
* Call someone down: Check, and call all bets to the river.
How to play when a flush or straight draw is present?
The presence of some draws on the board would somewhat obscure the reading of poker hands.
When no genuine draws will be present, bets and raises would imply made hands. With a two straight or flush on the board, however, bets and raises will occasionally be come bets in which a player would be pushing a drawing hand rather than a made one.
An in the illustrations given in the previous tips, you would have to bet if you were holding top pair or an overpair to the board, both to help protect your hand and for value. If there were to be a bet to you, you would have to raise with top pair-top kicker or better. Just calling with top pair-lesser kicker would often be best, unless a raise may taper the field.
You must have a good idea whether a raise would achieve this objective based on your position in relation to the bettor. If the bettor were to be to your immediate right, your raise would force all the other poker players in the pot to call double bets. But if a poker player was to bet and several rivals would have already called, all raising would achieve would be to build a bigger pot. You would need a very strong hand to do this.
One poker hand you could raise with in this case would the nut flush draw. You would have close to a forty percent chance of completing four flush by the river, and if several poker players were “trapped” between the initial bettor and you, you wouldn’t mind building a larger pot with a quality draw like this.
A side benefit of raising here would be that the other players will be likely to check to the raiser (you, in this case) on the turn. This way, if the turn card would not provide improvement, you could check as well. Experiences of poker. So, you would save half a big bet those times the turn card wouldn’t help your hand, but you would gain several small bets when it would.
For the most part, you should call with quality draws to flushes and open-ended straights. You wouldn’t win the pot unless you were to hit the draw, and you wouldn’t want to raise out any of your poker rivals. You would gain nothing by narrowing the field down to you and the best hand. Your chances of winning the pot would be nearly the same, but you wouldn’t win as much money when you would.
There would be one prominent exception to this, however. Sometimes it would be good to raise with a drawing poker hand when simply making a pair might win the pot for you. Here is an example:
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It was a five-way pot, and the first poker player was to bet. Although you wouldn’t raise out anyone holding a better flush draw, and your queen high would certainly not the best hand right now, a raise could be the right play for another reason. Suppose your raise were to cause a poker player holding an ace and jack or a king and queen to fold.
Now, you could win the pot not only if you were to make a flush, but also if you were to make a pair. In this case, you would have created extra outs for yourself. Then again, you shouldn’t take this idea overboard. It would be best to make this play with two cards in the ten and queen range, as they would be most likely to be in kicker trouble* if they were to pair up. That is, you would want to drive anyone out of the pot that would have a higher kicker than yours if he were to pair.
* Kicker trouble: The situation in which you have a pair, but if someone else has the same pair, he likely has a higher kicker.