[rwanger]

A thing about moving up and "getting smoked"...you can play well and still get smoked, it just makes it harder to handle. As long as you know you are making the right decisions, then you don't need to move back down. Sometimes though it's easy to start questioning your play when you lose money.

If it's any consolation, I've played 6 or 7 hours of live limit holdem above 5/10 in my life (learned playing lower stakes live, then moving to online, now into NL exclusively). I was a winning player at all limits I had played, and yet in my 6 or 7 hours I still have NOT WON A SINGLE HAND. Yet, I wouldn't hesistate to step into a juicy 20/40 game, because I know in the longrun I could outplay them.

If making the correct play is your objective (not making money), and you are overrolled, you should be able to do it.

If not, like others have suggested, there may be other factors at work...