A while back we offered the original "10 Sure Ways ..." article but a few things have changed since then so we figured we'd offer a whole new set of bad beats to help you blow any extra cash you've got laying around.

1. Find a casino with a nice fat bonus, 200% over your deposit is good, and make sure that the T&C's (Terms and Conditions) demand ridiculous playthrough requirements. 10-times playthrough is bad enough but you can find it as bad as 40-times if you look hard enough. That means if you deposit a grand to get that 200% bonus you'll have to bet in excess of $120,000 before you qualify for your winnings. Ha, what winnings?

2. Another list-topper is to actually get your money taken away. How do you do this? Easy, take a big bonus and then play as "suspiciously" as possible. A fine way is to only play multi-player games with the same people over and over. Especially Poker, that'll really get your account locked up real fast. Another plan is to go for a nice bonus with the lowest play-through requirments you can find, play only the absolute minimum at the lowest risk bets using perfect Strategy then ask to be cashed out and have your account closed. Bwaa ha ha! Can you say "bonus abuse"? I thought you could.

3. Look on the message boards for the worst possible casino you can find: if you can find say ten or fifteen individual pay-out and withdrawal complaints that's ideal. Now go there and deposit all the cash you can scrape up. Make sure you wait for the deposit to go through. Now ask to have all your money back without every playing a dime. Now you're learning the definition of s--l--o--w.

4. Here's another Poker one but you have to make sure you're still a real rookie player. Go to the busiest Poker room you can find, deposit, sit in and then take forever to make your decisions. Bad-mouth everyone in the game, especially those that try to help you get it moving. But make sure to ask lots of stupid questions too ... then argue about it. You'll soon have a table full of sharks hungry to tear you apart. Poof! Cash all gone.

5. Go with your gut. Forget about Strategies and play tables and odds and all that hooey! Play your hunches, use your mo-jo or whatever other "lucky" rubbish you can dig out of your junk drawer. Real men run on instinct! Real women got their intuition! Got a lucky feeling, go for it at Max Bet!

6. Ok, this one is a little complicated but let's give it a go. Step 1: DO NOT read any message boards where players talk about their casino experiences or problems they might be having getting paid, etc. Step 2: don't go to any casinos that you know or have heard of. Step 3: go to Google and search using "casino great payouts". Step 4: pick one of the Google hits that has really sexy graphics, like Playmate pictures or something like that. Anime porno pics are even better. Step 5: Deposit, play whatever you feel like and then try to withdraw. Good luck!

7. Here's a couple more Poker ones. First one only applies to people who have no idea how to play Texas Hold'Em. Make sure you don't study the rules in advance or play in practice games, just go straight into the real money games. Here's the trick: NEVER FOLD. Always pay to make it to the showdown. Hey, it's an education right? You're paying to learn. Frankly it doesn't matter what limits you play, you'll go broke soon enough with this one.

8. Second one: Hold'Em is again the game, it's a full table and you're gonna try to fill a broken Straight and busted Flush on the River. Go for it! You're bound to get that Jack for your 8-Q busted Straight, right? Or that one last Heart for your Flush? Buddy, you should have been out of this hand a long time ago but hell, why not, life is too short anyway right?

9. Don't just play "Real" money, play "Sweat" money! Here's the plan: figure out what you can afford to play this month ... and double it! Beg, borrow or steal but you gotta get way more in the pot than you can afford. Feel that rush, that super-aware "i can see outta the back of my head" feeling, that prickly damp feeling on your forehead? That's sweat money you're playing with. You may think you're playing smarter, all cylinders firing, but the truth is that that feeling is FEAR baby and fear is a very, very lousy gambling partner. Meet you in the poor house Billy.

10. Gonna crib a bit here and repeat one of the oldies, Sic Bo, 'cause I still hate this game as much as I ever did. "This game is a minefield of lousy bets. Like to give the house a 47.2% advantage? Then try the "totals" bet of 5 or 16. How about a specific pair at 33.3% to the house? The only halfways decent odds are "Small" or "Big" at a house edge of 2.7% but you'll have to look carefully to find that bet. If you like dice games, learn Craps. If it's the exotics that attract you, try betting on camel races. "