Hi Tom!
Yes, definitely yes.
Besides the usual West US parks tours, some italians (poker players and not) are intrigued to visit the classic old towns which made poker famous, places like Deadwood, Tombstone, Abilene, Dodge City and so on.

Ciao!

Back to the OP's question for a sec...

My general strategy is to defend with any 2 wheel cards or when my 2 hole cards are lower than his up card as long as his up card is 9 or lower. If his up card is 10 or higher I will defend with any 2 cards 8 or lower.

This is only in general of course. I adjust this strategy based on villain/dead cards/pot size/ante. With nitty villains/small pots/antes/dead hands I'll tighten up considerably, even if I know I'm getting robbed a lot of the time. I'll also loosen up a bit if villain is a horrible lagtard and will never stop barrelling no matter what.

Let me know if you see a glaring flaw in my logic. I know from experience that I defend a lot more than quite a few profitable regs. (EDIT - and less than some others as well)

I'll take a lot of EV-neutral spots vs certain villains in situations like this so they will make more mistakes when I have a legit hand in the future thinking I play a lot of trash.

if you want to defend with just 2 wheel cards you need to defend with hands including 9-J as well so as to balance your defending range.

so you are not defending 768 ag xx7 but will do so with 56k?

not sure if serious...maybe im just not understanding this 'advice'

No. I'd play that all day long vs a stealing villain. I'd raise vs some and call vs others. I was referring to situations where I have a brick up.

gotta be balanced yo