Whether your poison of choice is a dirty martini or a neat scotch, buying your own drinks can get very expensive. How do you keep yourself in your drink of choice without breaking the bank? Here are some of the best tips for getting free drinks, with varying degrees of effectiveness.

First, awe friends and strangers with the skill in the above video: entertain everyone by learning to punch through a bottle cap with your index finger, Kung-Fu style.

Then, watch the top five videos for drink-hustling tricks from the UK show The Real Hustle, hand picked by the masters at WiseBread.

Later, check out a whole site full of great bar tricks: EasyBarTricks.com is all about bar tricks and easy-to-do magic tricks. All the Bar and Magic Tricks are free and presented on video.

Finally, go a little more white-hat and get free drinks the old-fashioned way: by being nice to the bartender.