You spent six hours in a $2 MTT and only won $4.50? I probably play in the same $2 MTT and I've won more than $4.50 while only playing a little less than three hours. What MTT are you playing?
Understandably, at first, playing for pennies sounds just as good as poking your eyeballs out with a pencil. But consider it your first test in discipline. I felt the same way you did...but then I basically said to myself, "I have to earn the right to play 5NL." So I owned 2NL and went on to 5NL. I began to look at pots at big blinds and my win/losses as buy-ins (you should also be looking at them this way too). Use this time to study the game. Read a book and some articles and you'll be way ahead of 95% of the 2NL fish. I also began thinking 2NL was brutal...but we all have to start somewhere. If you're serious about this, you'd be more than willing to play 2NL to create a bankroll and move up in limits.
Start out depositing $40-$50 and begin the grind. Read a book or two and pay a lot of attention to the things said in this forum. All that helped grind my way into 10NL. Good luck buddy!
