cut my teeth at 'stars...
deposited $50 in Pacific poker, lucked it up to about $200. Put it in 'stars and lost it. Kept depositing lord knows how much until I wised up and became a winning player. In the meantime I had bonus-ho'd lots of sites for chips from
PSO. Ran my 'roll up to about $5k. About this point I started to have to wait for withdrawals from 'stars... that means you've withdrawn more than you've deposited.
My wife is a gambler, I have no idea how much money I've transferred her over the years but on one streak she did transfer $500 back so I'll just call that a wash. Bought the wife a nice ring, myself a nice laptop and have been losing steadily/breaking even ever since.
So I'm up a diamond ring, a laptop (currently broken... what a bad beat) and back down $40 ($100 deposited back, $60 currently).