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These hands may include three to a flush or a straight in four cards.

Although the probability of ending up with the winning hand is small it is still worth a shot

Here your objective must be to keep the betting small to give yourself a chance to re-evaluate your position in light of new cards.

After new cards, your hand will either have improved, (in which case it is no longer a long shot) or you will have seen enough to fold.

If it is cheap enough, and the next rounds cards will help to clarify your chances, calling a normal size bet is justified, but only if you have the discipline to fold if a desired card does not appear. If there are early raises or big bets, it is usually best to give up on long shot hands before you are sucked into expensive calls later.