Actually, I'm pretty sure Brian admitted that he's deposited more money than he's cashed out (as have MOST players), but that's neither here nor there.
It's an ok way of "keeping score," but it's not ideal. I mean, what if I cashed in $500 3 years ago and I now have $200,000 online. If I've never cashed out, that would mean I've put in $500 more than I've taken out, making me a loser by your system, and that's obviously not right.
Your total bankroll - whether you keep in on one poker site, on 10, all in Neteller, in the bank, etc - should be how you keep score.
To follow up on the above example, if I decide to go blow my $200k playing Pai Gow on Jetset, I think it would be absurd for me to claim to have lost only $500, since that's all I deposited. No..... I lost $200k. That was money that I owned. It doesn't matter where it came from or how I got it - it was mine to do with what I choose. I could have bought a house, but instead I blew it all playing Pai Gow, so I lost $200,000.... not $500.
People who insist they only lost $500 in that scenario are long term losers who need to justify their losses.
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