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A drawing hand is one that is worthless unless it improves, but if it does improve, is highly likely to be a winner.

Good examples are four card straights and flushes. Your objective on such hands should be to stay in as inexpensively as possible until you hit or until you judge that you showing cards make a bluff credible. In the early rounds you should not try and drive out opponents because if you hit you expect to beat them all, but neither are you afraid to call most bets or raises.

However the longer you stay in without completing your hand, the dimmer your prospects, and a round by round evaluation of the pot odds is essential. Much depends on the other cards showing. Weak players tend to neglect this, and if they have a four card flush at the outset, pointlessly stay to see the seventh card no matter what is showing, who is in the hand, or what they must call.