rppoker said
I realize that UTG+1 ultimately was not who you ended up battling with, but a player raising from that early of a position has a range that is waaaaaaaaay ahead of your 76ss. That should have been an easy fold preflop. Even if you were in the BB I think it is a fold to an early raise, but I suppose you could talk yourself into a call there since you have suited connectors and you see if you flop the world. I still think that would be a fold against such an early raise. I think if you are making calls this light on a consistent basis you are much more likely to a) find yourself short on chips earlier than necessary because you are bleeding chips, or b) get yourself in trouble when you flop a middling pair and run into a bigger pair. Yeah, you may get smacked by the deck once in a while and get paid, but much (MUCH) more often this hand just gets you in trouble.

Given that the were four people in the pot heading to the flop, the likelihood that your bluff catching pair of sevens is ahead after the river when there are three overcards seems pretty unlikely. I don’t know whether you won or lost this hand, but over time it seems like a pretty -EV play. As played, you picked up some showdown value on the turn but for your hand to be good villain has to have a hand without a 10, jack or ace. It seems to me you are only beating a bluff, and even if villain is bluffing he could very well be bluffing with the best hand against you. What to do on the river? Hope it goes check check and you pray that your showdown value is good. You might argue that the only way for you to win the pot is to bet the river, and while that this might very well be the only way you can win the hand, I think it is unlikely villain folds to a bet given the strength he showed in betting the flop and turn.

One other thought. After the flop and turn you kept chasing the flush, but even if you got there it is a small flush. Given that there were four people in the hand seeing the flop, there is a chance that if the flush eventually got there (it didn’t) it might be crushed by a better flush. In this case you are hoping villain has a better flush draw that like you didn’t get there and he never made a pair. The hands that villain could have that you beat seem really tiny compared to the hands he could have that beat you.  

Just wanted to disagree with a couple of things you mention – First of all if you have 76s in the BB, someone has raised 2.5x (even in Ep) this is a profitable call, even if no one else has come along as well. 76s plays well post, as it should be relatively easy to navigate and your chances of being hit with flush over flush are extremely low. Most importantly of all the pot odds you’re getting are far too good to turn down, as to be profitable you only need to win roughly at third of the time. Unless EP raisers are inredibly tight, and only raising premium pocket pairs you should reach this equity without too much difficulty, so it doesn’t matter if you do lose this hand more often than you win. 

Saying all this, calling from the HiJack is a bit of a different propostion, and I think you’d need a read that re-assures you that you can outplay UTG+1 comfortably before I would recommend this call. 

I also don’t disagree with your post-flop analysis hugely, although as Andrew says you always have more fold equity when betting than calling! A lot of the benefit of having a flush draw is in the fold equity it allows you to create against others, as much as what you make when you hit the flush itself.