YANS (Yet another SAGE question) NLTRN

[TNixon]

Ok, so SAGE still tells me I should be calling with hands I'm simply not comfortable calling with late in the game.

Say, for example, blinds are 25/50, and the short stack has 325 chips, and is in the small blind.

If he is following SAGE, then he's going to push with the top 64%.

HOWEVER...right at the beginning of the original article, they state that "Most players play far too tightly in heads-up jam-or-fold situations".

If this is true (and I believe it is, and that most of the opponents that I play are not pushing anywhere *near* 64% of their hands here), and the SB is pushing with a narrower range than SAGE would suggest, then shouldn't I also be calling tighter than SAGE would suggest? Obviously I'm already ahead from the times he should have pushed but didn't, and will be ahead in the long run just from that, but can't I get even *more* ahead by chucking something like J7o, Q5o, or J5s if I recognize the SB is pushing too tight?

Even though SAGE is non-exploitable, there are certainly situations where it's non-optimal as well, and I *REALLY* dislike doubling up somebody who I know is pushing tight, especially since I already know that they're going to lose ground folding too much, both in the SB and to my pushes from the button.

I don't mind pushing wide at all. I just don't like calling wide against somebody who's pushing too tight. Is that being nitty, or is that correct?

Are there any other lategame (7 BB or less) adjustments that can or should be made?