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By: Richard Bleuze

Sit And Go Endgame System (SAGE Strategy)

This poker strategy is known as SAGE.  The SAGE strategy, also known as the Sit And Go Endgame System is a system which was developed for the situations with two players and very high blinds, and is therefore mostly used in SNG-tournaments.

Many players are not able to adjust to the situation where the blinds are very large in proportion to the size of the stacks, which really reduces the advantage of a player which he might have had when playing under normal circumstances.  Thus, By using SAGE strategy you should be able to boost your own advantage against so-called better players by around 5% to 40%.

The SAGE strategy itself is very simple and easy to learn. This article sets guidelines as to when you can use the SAGE strategy, and how you proceed when you are using this system.

As I mentioned, this system is known as the Sit And Go Endgame System.  However, it is better know as the SAGE strategy.  Thus, I will us the SAGE letters in this article.  The SAGE strategy is based on a so-called equilibrium-strategy.  The SAGE strategy pictures a strategic balance (equilibrium) in which the player cannot deviate from his procedure to one side without reducing his own chance of winning.

Poker studies have shown, that the usage of the SAGE strategy nearly makes a heads-up-game with small stacks a cointoss, because first and foremost, players with great experience can be avoided.  

The SAGE strategy was created by an analysis of all 169 starting hands and their strength in a heads-up.  It only differs fractionally from the actual mathematical optimum, which in comparison to SAGE cannot be calculated during a game.

The SAGE strategy offers the approaching optimal strategy when you should move all-in from the small blind or respectively call an all-in from the big blind, everything in a neat and small table.

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