Everyone's got a plan, until they get punched in the face

It's been a long time since I've posted in here, but I think I should chronicle some of the things happening lately. I'm still grinding, mainly live local and casino cash games. I have just returned from the World Series of Poker and my excursion into Las Vegas for the first time. The city is great, a sportbook everywhere you look and more poker tables per square mile then anywhere on the planet. I spent very little time at a poker time however and used the trip more of a vacation and mental release than anything else. I played in the one WSOP event I was allowing myself this year which was the $1500 PLO8 Event 47. I wish I would have examined the structure sheet better before committing to this tournament, as you started with 1500 in chips and then were allowed 2 add-ons of 1500 through the first 3 levels. I instantly added on and started the tournament with 4500. Looking back, I probably should not have done that and should have tried to gamble that 1500 up as much as possible until I busted it then rebuy for 3k if needed. Even with this possible mistake, I was able to make it until the end of day one, busting late that night in 275 ish place out of 978 about 100 away from the money. It was a grindfest, I was hardly able to get anything going. I think my high point was about 7k. I got it in with top set twice only to be runner-runnered by a low to split the pot in both instances. One example of this was when I held AA4J on a board of A9Q rainbow. I bet the flop and was raised to which I re-shoved for a total pot of about 5k. (This is in the first hour btw). The villain turns over Q234 for top pair and a dream of splitting the pot. Of course the backdoor low draw hits and we split. Almost the same scenario happened to me later that day. Another pivotal moment was the last hand before the 2nd break, so 4 hours in. I pot it preflop with AA57 and have an old nit with about a 2k stack, call off 1/3 of his chips. Flop comes J78. I put him all in and he calls with A237. Turn comes a 3 and he scoops me.Bust out hand was A3QQ, I was down to 2200 in chips with blinds 400-800. I pot to 2100. Nit behind me insta re-raises. I just laughed and put my last 100 in knowing he has aces. He turns over AA3x and scoops. Next year, I will aim to play the 3k plo8 tournament with some backing as it seems to be a better structured tournament. For now it's back to grinding the local and casino games. The gang just discovered a local plo8 cash game that runs twice a week. It's a dealers choice game, but everyone seems to like to pick plo8. Hopefully this game will be a goldmine for us. We scooped over 700 combined dollars in our first crack at the $1/$1 game. A famous boxer said, "Everyone has a plan until they get punched." Well, Vegas certainly punched me in the face but I have a year to rebound and take another shot.