| 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. |
| Even if this team sneaks into the playoffs as a wild card, it clearly is not a playoff-caliber team. |
| 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. |
| To gain the playoffs as the wild card, a team will need 90 wins, according to the best estimates. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
