Pushing when you're sure you're ahead will usually bring people will along for the ride.
I'm playing .10/.25 NL on Bodog Poker. I'm dealt 7[h-
in early position.
I call hoping to see a cheap flop. I've never liked suited connectors as much as some have. But I will play them if it's cheap. It's really the only way to play them in my mind.
The action goes around and we've got five players. Normally that's scary, but suited connectors are exactly the kind of hand you want to play in a multi-player pot because of its huge potential. If it does hit big, you want to get paid off, and the chances of that are high if more people are in the hand. Otherwise you really shouldn't play them at all. I've folded them in a cash game when I know I'm going to be heads up against a player with a short stack.
In fact, they do hit big. The flop comes 
.
This is obviously huge. I have the second nuts and a redraw to a flush, which is rare for a flopped straight in Hold 'Em.
I even have an open-ended straight-flush draw.
The pot is $1.25. I'm first to act, so I check because I want to see what the table does and I don't mind slow-playing this a bit because I would benefit from the draw.
Another check, third check, check #4, 5th finally bets. He bets $2.
I call.
Another player raises to $6. This is essentially a check-raise.
The fourth player folds; the fifth player just calls; and I push.
Here's why. One of these guys obviously isn't leaving. My guess is the check-raise guy will stick around.
I don't have the nuts. I could be beat. But it's not likely. And I also want to drive out any sets, if people will fold sets at $25 NL poker. I've seen it before. I at least want to make it expensive for them to call.
If I don't push now, I don't get his stack if that third heart falls. So the heart probably won't hurt me. But it will hurt my chances of getting paid off if it does fall.
We've got three players left in the hand, and one of them, a short stack, calls me, and the last player calls off his whole stack.
The short stack had A-10, so you can't blame him, given the fact that he only had $5 left. That would be a horrible call otherwise.
The last player raised me, sure enough, with a set of 8s. It's hard to fold a set, no matter what the board looks like, but it wouldn't have been a bad idea here. He does not pair the board, and I win a huge pot.