| To gain the playoffs as the wild card, a team will need 90 wins, according to the best estimates. |
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| The joker is a wild card which can be used only as an ace, or to complete a straight, a flush or a straight flush. |
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| Statistical revision is the wild card in that most inexact pack of jokers known as economics. |
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| I was unexpectedly eliminated in the third round up against the wild card, Julia Kristen from California. |
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| Also, remember that, by rule, a wild card can't play a team from its division in the first round. |
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| Any serious injuries, however, could send hopes for even the wild card in the dumper. |
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| Now, on the eve of his leaving the world of professional tennis, he's granted a wild card, allowing him to play his final Wimbledon tournament. |
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| A meld containing three natural cards can have any number of wild cards added to it, since the first wild card added makes the meld a canasta. |
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| It was subsequently adopted in versions of Poker, Rummy and other games as a wild card which could be used as a substitute for any desired card. |
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| If your team starts a meld of wild cards, you cannot add any wild cards to any of your other melds until your wild card canasta is complete. |
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| Face cards should probably only be kept if a player is dealt a natural pair, or perhaps an individual wild card with a face card. |
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| Montgomerie, of course, is no certainty to play in the Ryder Cup, but if he fails to qualify, a wild card will surely be his. |
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| Even if this team sneaks into the playoffs as a wild card, it clearly is not a playoff-caliber team. |
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| When a player has a wild card in hand, he in effect has an extra card to use in filling in a straight or full house or flush. |
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| The Reds were four games out of the wild card race with 23 games remaining. |
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| The winner of the trick is the last person who played a card of the same rank as the original lead or a wild card. |
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| Even Easy Rider a wild card that symbolized the anarchistic spirit of that drug ridden time was a Columbia Studio release. |
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| When melding black threes in the process of going out, it is permissible to meld two black threes and a wild card. |
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| You can never take the pile if the top card is a wild card or a black three. |
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| It remains the wild card in an economic game that is still too close to call. |
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| He had won the USTA super national hard court championship last year to win a wild card for the US Open. |
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| In the US, sure, we had the occasional wild card on kid's TV, but man, you guys seemed to have a deck stacked with jokers. you guys seemed to have a deck stacked with jokers. |
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| Dutch Pro Continental team receives wild card for First Historical of the 2010 season. |
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| With two new divisions and no additional playoff spots, the realignment shuffle is going to make it all the more difficult for teams to reach the postseason as a wild card. |
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| By agreement, if the card turned up to start the discard pile happens to be a wild card or a red three, it may be put back into the stock pile and another card turned up. |
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| Jonathan is the wild card in the book's consciously ill-assorted deck of caricatures. |
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| These two are wild card entries with no chances of winning a medal at all. |
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| Nanotechnology, doing things at a scale measured in billionths of a metre, is a technological wild card for the industry. |
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| The real wild card for political and social unrest in the Middle East over the next 20 years is not war, terrorism, or revolution-it is water. |
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| As long as the leadership that created the original crisis remains in place, Iraq will be the wild card in the new deck. |
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| The cycling organisation of Unipublic has issued a wild card to the new Dutch Pro continental team for the 64th Tour of Spain. |
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| Prakash has not looked back and last year won the singles title at the USTA Super National hard court championships, which earned him a wild card for the US Opens. |
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| The wild card is 2010 lentil acreage since a huge crop could drive down prices this fall. |
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| Colours, shapes, numbers and wild card tiles all come into play as you try to end up with the fewest clusters on the board as possible, and avoid capturing too many tiles of the same colour. |
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| Told us the wild card would juice up baseball. |
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| Still, when Jacques is dealt a wild card by the Louisiana Purchase, late in the second act, and finds himself reënslaved and reduced to the tatters that signal his nonentity, Wright comes vivaciously into his own. |
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| Bigg Boss 8 has decided to bring in more drama by introducing reality show veterans as the new wild card entrants. |
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| China's growing military capabilities and the wild card of North Korea threaten Japan and, less so, South Korea, American allies that have thus far forborne from becoming nuclear-weapons powers. |
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| However, the wild card is consumer credit. |
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| The amount of the UCI Professional Continental Team's contribution to the biological passport will depend on whether a wild card label has been obtained or not. |
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| All riders on UCI ProTeams, UCI Professional Continental Teams with wild card status and other teams wishing to apply for this status have a biological passport. |
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| A 'Crisis' contingency or wild card was also created which could occur in any of the scenarios, and which could trigger a move from one scenario to another. |
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| Earl met Taveniere as well as Woods' wild card, cassette collagist Lucas Crane in college at SUNY Purchase. |
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| Both tournaments have 8 wild card entrants, with the remainder in each made up of qualifiers. |
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| How am I supposed to knock these other guys off. My wild card is nothing but defensive. I take a licking and keep on ticking. Big whoop. |
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| But a team that wins the wild card is like the boxer who wins the bronze medal in the Olympics. |
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| As both wars droned on, Tillman, the picture perfect poster boy, evolved into something of a wild card. |
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| British number three Jamie Baker, 254th in the ATP rankings, benefits from a wild card, as do Russia's Teimuraz Gabashvili and Andrey Kuznetsov and German Nicolas Kiefer. |
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| The instant replay, interleague play, and the wild card are here to stay. |
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| New York made it to the National League Championship Series as a Wild Card team last October, losing a cliffhanger series to the Atlanta Braves. |
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| The Marlins and Astros are neck and neck to capture the Wild Card in the NL with odds of 11-10 and 6-5 respectively. |
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| Whether Gloucester will actually take their place in the Zurich Wild Card depends on Wasps' European final next week. |
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