The I HATE!!!! the Suicide Pools Thread.

[Edmond Dantès]

Personally, I think it's a bit much for someone who is sitting there with several medals to be complaining about this when many people have none. No-one likes a whiner, especially one who is laden with shiny precious metal.

And I'd also just like to thank the mods for all their efforts in arranging these contests.

[Drop-shot]

My only rules are:
*Avoid any match with Roger-Vasselin, Karlovic or Stepanek
*Try to avoid matches with Chinese.
*Only pick seeds unless Hewitt has an easy R-1 match.

[Synth]

I always seem to forget to play the AO pool. It's so early in the year. My new year's resolution next year should be to not forget about it.

The only general guideline I like to follow is to pick players to win rather than pick against players you think will lose. You never know when a given player is going to decide to show you exactly why they're a professional tennis player. I've found this works better for the men than for the women. Perhaps in the next women's suicide pool I should pick against players I think will lose. So many headcases, so many options.

[lukeorion]

Never Davydenko or Cilic EVER

Bondarenko and U Radwanska have also taken me out too.

[munchin]

My only rules are:
*Avoid any match with Roger-Vasselin, Karlovic or Stepanek
*Try to avoid matches with Chinese.
*Only pick seeds unless Hewitt has an easy R-1 match.

This does not pay off for me the way it should

[shtexas]

Luckily, Aravane Rezai is not getting into these events to tempt me.

[e11even]

And dont pick anyone who has ever knocked you out of a pool.

This is likewise my golden rule, unless unavoidable in the latter stages of the pool. This is why it's easy for me to pick Seppi over Chardy, who knocked me out of USOSP 2012 by losing to Klizan. Even if Chardy wins, then Seppi just joins him into my Do Not Pick list.

[crashface]

I killed myself in this pool. A couple of years ago I vowed never to pick Youzhny again. As I was looking at the early matches, I saw Youzhny against a guy I thought had no chance of beating him. Still unconvinced, I did a more detailed look at playing stats in the last year and concluded Youzhny would easily win. He did not but I have no one to blame but myself. I will never again pick him.

I, too, have decided to institute a no Youzhny rule. Frickin' Youzhny!