Q&A #117: Should They Call Him McSpew?

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Should they call him McSpew? You be the judge. Here is jenson from the message board to tell his story:

At least they called me that on another forum when I posted this. I’m wondering if you guys have the same sentiment. I accept it if you do.

I was thinking of Ed’s recent blog posts about ultra loose live games when I made this play. Just to be clear, this is not the type of game where people are pushing all in indiscriminatly preflop, but the stacks are deep and just about every hand is raised to $20 preflop.

Here’s what I posted elsewhere:

I walked into a near empty Borgata poker room this morning and took the first available seat at a 1/2NL table. The table was mostly full of old-timer regulars paying more attention to their racing forms than poker.

Nearby was a raucous table with several players with very deep stacks for 1/2NL. One guy had close to $1,500. Another guy had about $1,000 and several stacks were near $500. Several of these guys had been playing all night. Only one guy was visibly drunk.

When a seat opened at the action table I moved right over. Pretty much every hand was raised to $20 pre flop with up to four or five players seeing the flop. The action was loose on later rounds too with a mixture of players simply calling down light and truly big hands.

This hand happened in my second orbit and I had a modest stack of $160. I’m in middle position with a low suited two-gapper. Two guys limp in front of me and I limp along too. The guy to my immediate left raises to the standard of $20. By the time it gets back to me there were four callers. The pot was now about $100 (initial raise + four callers).

I push for $160. Thoughts?

Here’s what I think.

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