When you play live events like the IPT, in the early going, you will see lots of multiway pots. So let’s address a big leak most players have – bluffing too much.

For those most part, this is C-betting too much. Most modern players learned that you print money with C-bets and you should do it all the time. But that’s certainly not the case in family pots.

The more players in the pot, the less often you should bluff.

You are just going to run into somebody with a made hand more often. In soft live games and low stakes online tournaments, it’s hard to expect one player to fold, even tougher to expect multiple players to fold.

When you do bluff, your bluffs need to be drawing to something very strong. You want very strong semi-bluffing hands to nut straights and nut flushes, for example. Basically, the hands that can reliably beat more than one value hand.

In that respect, you are not so much bluffing, but value betting your equity – often you will have more equity than the other two players you are trying to make fold.

Poker is much more honest and orientated around value multiway, it is one of the things that makes multiway strategy simpler to execute than most people realise.The more players there are, the stronger your value has to be, so the stronger your bluffs need to be.

Having said that, there are spots where you can really ramp up your bluffing, which is on the river when all the opponents have capped themselves.

We cover this extensively in my latest course “Multiway Poker Simplified” available at https://simplifypoker.com/courses/multiway-poker-simplified/, but in simple terms, because people play more honestly and value orientated, if none of your opponents have bet by the river, and then they check to you, you can reliably assume nobody has a strong hand.

Old school players have known this forever, these are the ‘Orphan Pots’ that nobody seems to want. You can play very exploitatively in these spots.

You can’t have a semi bluff on the river, but it helps to have a blocker to a very strong hand. A very good candidate for a bluff here is when you river a bad bottom pair type hand. That’s because you block a surprise rivered set, one of the few hands weak players will check/raise a river with.