For some players, the problem with wild card games is that the winner is almost always the hand with the most wild cards, making the other cards irrelevant, and making skill less important.

The Padres then met the Rockies on October 1, 2007 in Denver for a one-game playoff to decide the wild card winner.

The three division winners from each conference would be ranked first through third and be given a week off, and two wild card teams from each conference, seeded fourth and fifth, would play a playoff game with the winner going on to play the first seeded team ( or, if they were in the same division, the second seed ).

If there is a repeat division winner, a wild card team will qualify for the play-offs.

The playoffs pair the division winner with the best record against one wild card team, and the other two division winners meet in a one-game playoff.

At the Ancient Olympic Games only one winner per event was crowned with kotinos which was an olive wreath made of wild olive leaves from a sacred tree near the temple of Zeus at Olympia.

* Four of a kind: Between two equal sets of four of a kind ( possible in wild card and community card poker games or with multiple or extended decks ), the kicker determines the winner.

In this round, the third-seeded division winner hosts the sixth seed wild card, and the fourth seed hosts the fifth.

The better team would be seeded # 1, while the lesser team would be seeded # 5 as the top wild card team, and as shown in the diagram, it is possible for the # 1 division winner to play the top wild card team in the divisional round.

These changes forced the division winner with the worst record in each conference to play during the first round, eliminating an advantage for the top-seeded wild card where the top wild card received a home game.

The winner of the wild card bout would then be included in the quarterfinal round of eight fighters.

Despite having been originally eliminated at the first stage, Terry Wogan's " wild card " pick turned out to be the winner when the viewers voted Andy Abraham the victor with " Even If ".

The wild card teams would play each other with the winner advancing to the playoff round of eight teams.

The winners of each division, and a fourth " wild card " team based on the best non-division winner, qualified for the playoffs.

The winners of each division, and a fourth " wild card " team based on the best non-division winner, qualified for the playoffs.

The winners of each division, and a fourth " wild card " team based on the best non-division winner, qualified for the playoffs.

The winners of each division, and a fourth " wild card " team based on the best non-division winner, qualified for the playoffs.

The winners of each division, and a fourth " wild card " team based on the best non-division winner, qualified for the playoffs.

The winners of each division, and a fourth " wild card " team based on the best non-division winner, qualified for the playoffs.

The winners of each division, and a fourth " wild card " team based on the best non-division winner, qualified for the playoffs.

The winners of each division, and a fourth " wild card " team based on the best non-division winner, qualified for the playoffs.

Comparing card games are those where hand values are compared to determine the winner, also known as " vying " or " showdown " games.

Poker is a family of card games involving betting and individualistic play whereby the winner is determined by the ranks and combinations of their cards, some of which remain hidden until the end of the game.

An unseen card that would improve a drawing hand to a likely winner is an out.

Whoever has revealed the highest ( or sometimes lowest ) card is the winner.

A trick-taking game is a card game or tile-based game in which play of a " hand " centers on a series of finite rounds or units of play, called tricks, which are each evaluated to determine a winner or " taker " of that trick.

The game continues in the same fashion, the winner having the advantage of placing the first card.

Bergkamp headed in the winner against Liverpool in a FA Cup fourth-round tie on 27 January 2002, but was shown a red card for a two-footed lunge on defender Jamie Carragher, who himself was sent off for throwing a coin into the crowd.

At the close of the October – November 1985 contest, that episode's in-studio winner drew a card from a bowl containing the names of each of the 75 at-home participants featured over the five-week period.

The winner of each trick declares one meld face up on the table and scores points for it, takes a card from the top of the stock and then leads to the next trick.

" Feathers leaves a poker game a winner, Chance follows her up to her room and confronts her as a card cheat, with his evidence four missing aces from the deck of cards being used in the game, and a handbill indicating she was wanted for card cheating.

Canadian Rules-Involves the shithead having to surrender their best face up card in the next game to the winner of the previous game, accepting the winner's worst card in exchange.

The discarded card may be either a winner or a card needed to protect a winner.

* Menace or threat card ( s )-card ( s ) held by declarer or dummy which is a loser but which can become a winner when the squeeze is operated

* Squeezee ( slang )-the defender ( s ) obligated to discard a card which is a winner or protects a winner

Dr. Linus Pauling, a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, has been less ambiguous, whether you choose to agree with him or not.

She expressed reservations over the eventual winner David Cameron, feeling that he did not, like the other candidates, have a proven track record, and she was later a leading figure in parliamentary opposition to his A-List policy, which she has said is " an insult to women ".

James Tobin's ( winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics ) proposal for a tax on financial transactions ( called, after him, the Tobin tax ) has become part of the agenda of the movement.

File: JohnMcFall-Manchester-20070513. jpg | John McFall, who has an above-knee leg amputation, and uses a prosthetic leg, is a sprinter and winner of a gold medal at the 2007 Paralympic World Cup

" For pitchers, wins, ERA, and strikeouts are the most often-cited statistics, and a pitcher leading his league in these statistics may be referred to as a " Triple Crown " winner ( but normally he has won the Cy Young Award ).

From 1998 to 2011, the wild-card team has been assigned to play the division winner with the best winning percentage ( outside of their own division ) in one series, and the other two division winners meet in the other series.

From 1998 to 2011, the wild-card team has been assigned to play the division winner with the best winning percentage ( outside of their own division ) in one series, and the other two division winners meet in the other series.

In all other disciplines ( pairs, triples, fours ) the winner is the team who has scored the most shots after 21 / 25 ends of play.

The team that has scored more goals at the end of the game is the winner ; if both teams have scored an equal number of goals, then the game is a draw.

This, of course, gave great prestige to the Chinese version and in the first four years of play only one winner has emerged out of China.

Within his " one party, two factions " model, Li Chen has noted that one should avoid labelling these two groupings with simplistic ideological labels, and that these two groupings do not act in a zero-sum, winner take all fashion.

Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has described homophobia as a " crime against humanity " and " every bit as unjust " as apartheid: " We struggled against apartheid in South Africa, supported by people the world over, because black people were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about ; our very skins.

Each of FAO ’ s Goodwill Ambassadors – celebrities from the arts, entertainment, sport and academia such as Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi Montalcini, actress Gong Li, the late singer Miriam Makeba, and soccer players Roberto Baggio and Raúl, to name a few – has made a personal and professional commitment to FAO ’ s vision: a food-secure world for present and future generations.

For many years a popular myth has persisted that in the Japanese version of this film, Godzilla emerges as the winner.

The presidential elections were the most competitive in the history of the country in which the difference in the ballot count between the winner and the first runner up was less than one percent point, and in which neither candidate got absolute majority in a system in which a second round of voting has not been instituted.

Where scoring takes place it may be a subsidiary measure, only used if no clear winner has been established by other means ; in some competitions, such as the UFC 1, there was no scoring, though most now use some form of judging as a backup.

The Cup currently has a $ 500, 000 bonus for the owner of the winner if it has also won the group one Irish St. Leger run the previous September.

* Paramount has retained the rights to some of its silent films, including 1927's Wings, the first Academy Award winner for Best Picture, and Josef von Sternberg films Underworld, The Last Command, and The Docks of New York.

Result: Ice Cream now has an absolute majority so is declared the winner.

Result: After round two Nashville has an absolute majority and is the winner.

Since 1988, the Millennium Trophy has been awarded to the winner of the game between England and Ireland.

This irregularity has since been proven to be a manufacturing fault with the control of the driver but the governing body have refused to reinstate Gordon Moodie as the winner in the record books.