These spots confuse me, especially vs lp's. Is this a standard fold?

Full Tilt Poker $0.25/$0.50 Limit Hold'em - 6 players
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Preflop: Hero is Button with 8, 8
UTG calls, MP calls, CO folds, Hero raises, SB folds, BB calls, UTG calls, MP calls.

Flop: (8.40 SB) Q, 7, 5 (4 players)
BB checks, UTG bets, MP calls, Hero folds

yeah I would probably fold, if you're behind here your drawing to two outs, and if you catch one of your outs and someone is betting/calling with a straight draw here you might lose money if you hit it. In this spot I usually assume UTG has a Q and the MP is on either a straight or flush draw and even if I'm ahead at this point They both probably have redraws out the ass.

Raise it up.

With two backdoor draws and the possibility that you are ahead of UTG and MP, getting 10.5-1 I wouldn't fold. I would consider calling or raising, not sure which.

Backdoor flush? I'm thinking if I actually hit the 8 high would not hold up. I have one player to act behind who will most likely call whether or not I call. Seems like I have 3 outs at best.

yah but you also have the best hand sometimes and there are 10.4SB in the pot

But I will get redrawn so I don't have implied odds and I supposedly need to be getting about 14-1 odds to call. UTG is betting into 3 people, I doubt its a semi bluff.

People play flush draws like this all the time.

Like Oink said in another post of mine, I think I have some big flaws in my game. Most of the time I want to keep going in a hand I'm told to fold and when I seem to be looking for folds everyone else is looking for calls or raises!

you didn't provide any reads but people play all sorts of crap like this. straight draws, flush draws, middle/bottom pair, even stuff like ace high

the pot is pretty big you can't bail on it with a hand this strong without a good reason

9 replies & no obv. "raise preflop" yet?

I think it was ...

I doubt I fold the flop for one bet. Matter of fact I think raising is slightly better as we can get hands like K9-J, A9, AT to fold when they would be close to correct to call our raise if they had back door flush draws to go along. I understand that straight draws and flush draws are calling, but we don't always face these behind us. A raise can increase our pot equity a great deal.

edit: I see that you metioned loose passives. Sometimes they do weird stuff often enough. If you have a read that says he hasn't bet a draw and only bets top pair, then it's a fold in my books. Otherwise I take the action I layed out above.

in these spots I mostly call the flop, not sure if its the best line

It's normal to have flaws when you play 0.25/0.5, but folding more is not a solution. You have to analyse the hands where you are not sure. In this hand you have 2 outs for a set and 1-1.5 outs with the backdoors imo with slightly positive implied odds. Moreover you have the best hand quite often, so you can't fold.

Raising is not bad imo against a lp, the lp donk often a made hand. So if he 3 bet you are quite sure you are behind (fd is possible but unlikely imo), so you can make a good fold on the turn in this case. Moreover it is a good thing if the pot becomes HU.