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THE JOKER RULE<br /><font color=cyan>A joker is a card which can be given any value and may help you to score better combinations. I’ll use @ as symbol for a joker. In each tournament, the player who loses in the first round to the eventual winner will be the joker and will assume the value which gives you the best possible result according to the other cards in your hand.</font>
I’ve made a search to find out all the jokers of the 2001 season. <img src="smile.gif" border="0">
The jokers are mostly low ranked players, but the list also includes Silvia Farina-Elia, Henrieta Nagyova and Lina Krasnoroutskaya. In many cases, the tournament winner was a high seed and had a bye in the first round, so the joker value was not assigned. There have been at least one joker per leg, but only in 3 occasions the player was actually or is currently present in a combination (the ones in <font color=lime>lime</font>).
1st round<br />Gold Coast - Razzano<br />Auckland - Brandi<br />Canberra - Jeyaseelan<br /><font color=lime>Hobart - McQuillan<br />Australian Open - Nagyova</font>
2nd round<br />Paris - Panova<br />Nice - Carlsson
3rd round<br />Porto - Gagliardi
4th round<br />Estoril - Kuti Kis<br />Budapest - Casoni<br /><font color=lime>Bol - Petrova</font>
5th round<br />Rome - Carlsson<br />Antwerp - Cervanova<br />Strasbourg - Dominikovic<br />Roland Garros - Loit
6th round<br />Tashkent - Perebiynis<br />Wimbledon - Asagoe
7th round<br />Vienna - Glass<br />Palermo - Daniilidou<br />Knokke-Heist - Daniilidou<br />Sopot - Kuti Kis<br />Casablanca - Marrero<br />Basel - Mandula
8th round<br />US Open - Dlhopolcova
9th round<br />Hawaii - Barna<br />Bali - Liu<br />Moscow - Krasnoroutskaya
10th round<br />Shanghai - Nemeckova<br />Bratislava - Medina-Garrigues<br />Munich - Farina-Elia<br />Pattaya - Loit
In conclusion, I think this new feature works quite well: a joker gives a great help in scoring a good combination, but it’s not easy to have it and it’s basically a matter of pure luck. <img src="smile.gif" border="0">
[ November 29, 2001: Message edited by: DoctorG ]</p>
I’ve made a search to find out all the jokers of the 2001 season. <img src="smile.gif" border="0">
The jokers are mostly low ranked players, but the list also includes Silvia Farina-Elia, Henrieta Nagyova and Lina Krasnoroutskaya. In many cases, the tournament winner was a high seed and had a bye in the first round, so the joker value was not assigned. There have been at least one joker per leg, but only in 3 occasions the player was actually or is currently present in a combination (the ones in <font color=lime>lime</font>).
1st round<br />Gold Coast - Razzano<br />Auckland - Brandi<br />Canberra - Jeyaseelan<br /><font color=lime>Hobart - McQuillan<br />Australian Open - Nagyova</font>
2nd round<br />Paris - Panova<br />Nice - Carlsson
3rd round<br />Porto - Gagliardi
4th round<br />Estoril - Kuti Kis<br />Budapest - Casoni<br /><font color=lime>Bol - Petrova</font>
5th round<br />Rome - Carlsson<br />Antwerp - Cervanova<br />Strasbourg - Dominikovic<br />Roland Garros - Loit
6th round<br />Tashkent - Perebiynis<br />Wimbledon - Asagoe
7th round<br />Vienna - Glass<br />Palermo - Daniilidou<br />Knokke-Heist - Daniilidou<br />Sopot - Kuti Kis<br />Casablanca - Marrero<br />Basel - Mandula
8th round<br />US Open - Dlhopolcova
9th round<br />Hawaii - Barna<br />Bali - Liu<br />Moscow - Krasnoroutskaya
10th round<br />Shanghai - Nemeckova<br />Bratislava - Medina-Garrigues<br />Munich - Farina-Elia<br />Pattaya - Loit
In conclusion, I think this new feature works quite well: a joker gives a great help in scoring a good combination, but it’s not easy to have it and it’s basically a matter of pure luck. <img src="smile.gif" border="0">
[ November 29, 2001: Message edited by: DoctorG ]</p>