Sciolist: That is not true.. You are not only pushing with hands that if called are +EV. You are taking FE into account, which means pushing hands are much worse than calling hands... It is about reaching the Nash Equalibrium....

But, I agree with the original post. The looseness makes the pushing strategy suboptimal because other people are playing suboptimally. So, when I push with 9s6s, and get called by Js2s on the bubble, I am really pissed because of his terrible call. It is a terrible call even though he was +EV because I would have pushed with a huge range of hands that would have been better than J2.