How is Pete getting on?

After that hand I had a feeling it was not going to be my night. This other very sick, sick hand came up:
***** Hand History for Game 1398281182 *****
$10.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, January 27, 05:23:22 ET 2009
Table TURBO French (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: murphymultiplier ( $23.52 USD )
Seat 3: 21smInColdWater ( $31.34 USD )
Seat 5: twaNe1k ( $13.13 USD )
Seat 6: ressible ( $10.64 USD )
Seat 8: changeinDaBank ( $1.71 USD )
Seat 10: cardfish2 ( $13.87 USD )
21smInColdWater posts small blind [$0.05 USD].
twaNe1k posts big blind [$0.10 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to murphymultiplier [ 4d 4s ]
ressible folds
changeinDaBank folds
cardfish2 folds
murphymultiplier raises [$0.40 USD]
21smInColdWater raises [$1.25 USD]
twaNe1k folds
murphymultiplier calls [$0.90 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Th, 9c, 4c ]
21smInColdWater bets [$2.00 USD]
murphymultiplier raises [$5.00 USD]
21smInColdWater calls [$3.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jd ]
21smInColdWater checks
murphymultiplier bets [$7.80 USD]
21smInColdWater raises [$25.04 USD]
murphymultiplier calls [$9.42 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ Jh ]
21smInColdWater wins $53.96 USD from main pot
21smInColdWater shows [Js, Tc ]

This was pot was for over 5 Buyins at this level, which is massive and to hit runner runner house v my set, is just not what I needed at this time. Later in the night, I had set over set and he rivered quads for another 2 Buyin Pot. I played a few STTS, in which I was having little or no success in either. I played through till about midday which was a long 12 hour session and I ended up wit about $130 dollars in the account. I am finding this challenge very difficult indeed, I don't think I have adjusted properly to these new limits and but I'm going to have to very soon or else I will never be able to move up the levels.

So after getting up to 10c20 and running bad there, I am now back to where I started at 2c4c, this has been very disheartening, as I was very confident after my MTT success, but now I get the feeling I will never get there.

On Tuesday, I took the night off, as I was playing a live game, but I played for about an hour before I went to bed. I decided to play some HU cash and a few STTS, I managed to bust out of the STTS, but I found a donk heads up to play. I 4 bet him wit JJ and he calls. Then he called a bet on the flop with a gutshot, I turn a set completely his straight and that was that. I reload and 3 bet him wit AJdd and get it in on a J hi flop v his Q9. Again he hits the Q and I decided enough was enough, and it was time for bed with $100 left in the account. Back to square one :(

This is turning into a BadBeat thread, but it is just sick how bad I am running. On Tuesday night I decide to start off with a few STTs and a couple of 2c4c cash games. I got off to a good start in the STTS, but that run dried off after about 10 of them but I think I had made a little profit on them. The cash was going alright, until the early hours of the morning, when I had KK busted by AK and then I went to spew mode rising and re raising most hands and I managed to donk off a few BuyIns.

My total balance is now $78.01 and I am really starting to doubt myself over completing this challenge. I have been playing nearly 10 hours a day since I started and I have absolutely nothing to show for it, which is hugely disappointing for me. I don't know what I am doing wrong, maybe it's just that the pots seem pretty worthless, but I should not be thinking that way at all, I should be thinking of them as Big Blinds and not in their monetary value.

I've got to try a different approach to the cash, I think. I have to really tighten up my range and try not to get people to fold hands, when they should be folding, but just play basic strategy. I hope to bring better news next time around. Again thanks to everyone who has been wishing me luck, not that I seem to be getting much of it lately though!!