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Hi, I was wondering if someone has had an alike experience like myself:

I'm generally a winning player. I crush live games, and do well on the internet (have cashed out 750$ after depositing 50$ earlier, running NL10). I'm only 18 years old, however, and don't have too much pocketchange to deposit, so I've put in around 200-300$. Around 2 weeks ago, I deposit 250$, I ran well for a few days, built it up from 250$ to 400$ on NL10 in 3-4 days, before a friend asked me to send him some money on Stars.

I hesitated, but he's a close friend, so I thought, what the hell, I'll just win it back anyway, and sent him 50$. He blew it pretty quickly, and asked for more. I sent him another 50$. After those 100$ were gone, I started thinking only about winning back what I had 'lost', and didn't play as well as I usually do, and also bought into some 20$ tournaments (with a bankroll on 300~), and started running bad.

I felt like I got involved with a tons of badbeats; three outers and two outers happened to me frequently late in tournaments, and I felt like I was the unluckiest guy in the world. I ran down to less than 200$ - and frankly, I have no idea where the rest of it ended.

So I was wondering, have anyone had any experiences remotely close to what I have? Does sending away hard earned money (poker-wise), really hurt my psychology that bad?

It was only 250$ I lost really, so economically it's not a big deal. But I still thought it sucked, since I was eager to build a bankroll on NL10. Though, I guess I should mention, that I lost most of it on S&G and MTTs.