Gidday James,
Mate, you should celebrate! You popped your casino cherry!
It seems pretty daunting at first and yes, four months does seem like a long time to get your first player, but there are probably a few little things you can do to change that.
But to answer your question, the negative accrual thing….OK, some programs will do what they call ‘negative carry-over’ which means that if your players have a big win and you are in the negative, you will carry that into the next month. Some programs however, do NOT have negative carry-over and your negative balance will be zeroed out at the end of the month and you can start from zero again.
If you wanted to fire me a PM with your current site and what niche you are targeting, I would be happy to have a look and offer any tips I can to help you get some more players.
I’ve got quite a few sites in a number of different niches and do a lot of offline promotion too so I can probably help you out.
Best of luck with that minnow turning into a whale, stranger things have happened!