What do you need to think about when playing drawing hands?

You have to take a lot of factors into account, such as stack sizes, your position in a tournament, and the players on the table. Once you’ve got all those circumstances calculated it should present you with several ways you should or shouldn’t play it.

Personally I like to raise with suited connectors, especially when I’ve got position, for two reasons. Firstly, if you get re-raised by someone out of position and you have enough to call, you can hit this hand and it’s well disguised.

I will often raise with something like 4-5 suited and if the flop comes 4-5-9 and the other bloke has a pair of Jacks, Queens or Kings, they’re dead.