In my life, I have never achieve anything from gambling that I could be proud of. Even when I win and I decided to be saving money from it, so that I can use it to do something valuable or something I will never forget in a hurry, I ended up using the little one I save for gambling, with the hope of winning big, so that has been my problem in gambling and has also make me lose enough money, which I know very well, that assuming I was using those little money I was saving, I could have used it to get myself a valuable thing or use it to invest in where I can be profiting from.
Well, to be honest with, I think your experience is not far different from that of several people in the gambling industry today including myself, and one thing I've actually learned is that it's almost or so impossible to create a savings off money made from gambling, and the reason I can think of at the moment is that, naturally for man, the more money a gambler has at their disposal, they more confident they become, most especially in their gambling decisions, which often will be that the money kept as a saving be invested back to gambling for even bigger and better opportunity to save even more, they usually forget there is no guaranteed winning in gambling, and that they stand a chance of losing all the money back to the casino (and this is usually how it ends many of the time).
Since I started gambling, I've never seen or come across anybody who is gambling, and is saving money from his or her gambling profits, those who I have seen that did something that is really big with money made from gambling won a huge amount of money in the go, that is why he or she can or could achieve that.
Winning tiny amounts and trying to save from it in other to achieve a personal life goal that will cost alot isn't really possible if you ask me.