Back in Action in TX!

[Phil]

I am a long-time winning low-stakes TX poker regular who has sat out the last 14 months of live-poker due to COVID. I spent the lockdown playing way more online both on ACR and Pokerbros and studying. I feel like my online play has improved and I have been focused on being more balanced pre and post flop. My question though is that although my fundamentals and hand-reading have improved I am looking for some advice on how/when to implement these type of changes in the wild and crazy TX games. I generally play $1/2 300 cap and $1/3 match the stack in central TX, my win rate over 400 sessions in the last 3 years is 24 bb/hr after fees in $1/2 and 23 bb/hr after fees in $1/3. I have an over 200 buyin bankroll for these games. If you are familiar with TX games is they play very large, at least twice as big as normal casino games with the same blinds. Otherwise these win rates would be ridiculous.

I game and seat select aggressively and have been historically adopting a very solid (some would say too-tight) pre-flop strategy and mostly making hands and getting paid in multi-way pots with some sensible bluffing and semi-bluffing in heads-up and 3 way pots. It is important to understand in these games its often 5-6 ways to the flop and 3 bets sometimes get called in 3-4 spots. I tend to only 3 bet very strong hands in these games and use huge sizing as people do not like to fold in TX. I definitely pay attention to the regulars these games and try to get to know their tendencies as much as possible.

I am looking for some mindset and tactical advice coming back from this long layoff and heading into these crazy games. Especially in light of the fact that I have been studying a more GTO strategy for online play. I certainly plan on using my improved fundamentals in heads up spots and will consider a more aggressive 3 betting strategy but will most likely fall back to the exploitative strategies I have used in the past in these games. Thoughts?

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