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Most of the poker strategy we see today focuses on what to do when you’re isolated with an opponent on later streets.  And this type of strategy is great too since it’s very useful when handling these one-on-one situations.  However, there are more than enough times when you will have multiple people in the pot with you and thus must know some moves for dealing with multi-pot situations.  Here are a couple of great moves you can use when going against multiple players for a pot.

Squeeze Play

One of the best ways to take down a multi-way pot is by capitalizing on the over-aggressiveness of another player.  For instance if a very aggressive player raises in early position and the player before you calls the raise, you can then re-raise to get both of them to fold.  Of course for the squeeze play to be successful you need to be very sure that the initial raiser is holding a weak hand and hoping to steal the hand with a raise.  You’ve also got to know that the player in the middle is only calling with a mediocre hand as well.

Calling

Another great thing you can do in multi-way pots is simply call on earlier streets, then fire out a big raise later on.  What’s great about this move is that it allows you to fool your opponents into thinking you’re only calling everything they do.  Then, when all cards have been laid out, you fire out a big raise which makes your opponents question their own hands.  If you’re only holding a decent hand, this can be a great way to get others to fold even better hands.