best strategy for small starting bank.

No such thing as guaranteed profits.

There are no '(guaranteed) profits'.

The answer lies within yourself Flash. Study, watch and do as little gambling as possible.

small bank => small stakes

a useful tip would be to get on the right side of Betfair payout and commission nearest-penny-rounding

How good are you at recognising value ? That will
be the key in your case, a bit of backing and laying
in the second half especially, in the same market if
possible. Might be fun From £20, concentrating with
your back to the wall. GL

Based on what you have already said my advice is the inevitably blow that bank and learn what you did wrong. Do lots of reading my friend.

Just got back in from work, Thanks for all the replies so far, I know there's isn't guaranteed profits, hence I bracketed it. I have been following football for years and normally bet on the over 2.5 goals market..but on william hill. hence not much experience on this site. But as a little starter on this site, I was just wondering the best way to start going about increasing a small deposit.

you will learn  a lot more by repeatedly losing initially than you will by winning imo

just do what you normally do ie do small bets on the 2.5 goals market and see how you get on for a while

back a score when a goal goes in and lay it with a small profit after a few mins.. will be very unlucky if you get 2 goals within a few mins of each other. goal scores market price 5.7 2 mins later its 5.4 small but a profits a profit.

Can you actually get on the right side of Betfair's penny rounding errors? I thought they just randomly add or subtract a penny here or there to even things out?

well, i never looked that close, but I'd be surprised if it was random.  Think it's either rounding up (for comm) or rounding to nearest penny for bets

I often see spurious figures in my statement, for example I can see I have a losing 1.01 lay for 250 that cost me (2.49) and another seemingly identical lay that cost (2.50)

Perhaps they might be affected by how the bet got matched though?

Flash, there are ways to make guaranteed profits but you're not going to be told about that by anyone obviously, so it's a case of studying the markets and learning as much as you can about how the odds and the money moves. With a 20 quid starting bank you can do it, I started with 200 quid. Reading Smithy's thread would be a good place to start I reckon :)

Sometimes these days it is 2 pence!

Betfair's corporate christmas party will be well-funded this year...

spend the £20 on condoms and lube and sell your poopenshaften for £5 6 times a nite...sorted