Flush draw is an incomplete hand in poker made of four cards of the same suit. In other words, flush draw is a hand missing one card of a suit for a player to complete a flush (when there are still more cards to be dealt on the board).

For instance, if you have     and the flop is      , you have a flush draw and any card of spades will give you flush.

Flush draw can be divided into:

• Strong (the highest card an Ace or a King)
• Medium (the highest card 10, Jack or a Queen)
• Weak (the highest card lower than 10)

Pure (naked) flush draw has 9 outs to hit as there are 13 cards of the same suit in the deck and 4 of them are your draw.

Advice on how to play flush draw in poker

There are two ways of playing with this draw combination:

• Passive. The main idea is to try to see the cards of turn and river as chip as possible and then try to get some more chips from the opponent's stack. The disadvantage of this way of playing flush draw is that your value bet will often get nothing as the 3 (three) cards of the same suit on a board usually look dangerous.
• Aggressive. The point of aggression here is show to the opponent that you have a made hand, use his fold equity and increase the size of the bank you will win in case your flush will be completed.

There are the following rules of playing flush draw (in tourneys):

If you raised preflop keep putting pressure on the flop and on the turn.

If you entered the pot by making preflop call, play carefully, check-call and sometimes even check-fold your weak flush draws; use check raises only with strong flush draw hands (flush draw + 2 over cards, for instance).

Look for comfortable situations for semi-bluffs if you feel that your opponents’ actions are weak, make raises or even push your flush draw.