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LAS VEGAS -- Daniel Negreanu is a poker hall-of-famer and two-time World Series of Poker player of the year. But hes never made it to the final table in the tournaments marquee Main Event in Las Vegas. Twice, in 2001 and 2015, he missed by just two seats.This weekend, the 41-year-old who lives in Las Vegas will give it a 19th try.As long as I live, Ill never miss the Main Event, Negreanu said this week as play continued at the 47th annual tournament at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino.Its such a spectacle, he said. Its the one the mainstream media pays attention to, and everyones eyeballs in the industry are on that one event.Tournament officials project that as many as 7,000 players will ante up $10,000 each to buy in to the no-limit Texas Hold `Em competition when play begins with three opening stages Saturday, Sunday and Monday.A final table of nine players is scheduled to emerge July 18 -- and then take a break until Oct. 30, when theyll return for the Main Event championship through Nov. 1. Dates were moved this year to avoid conflicting with the U.S. presidential election, tournament official Seth Palansky said.Poker pro Joe McKeehen, 25, of North Wales, Pennsylvania, won the gold bracelet last year and a $7.68 million top prize.This years Main Event is expected to attract past winners including Phil Hellmuth (1989), Scotty Nguyen (1998) and possibly Chris Ferguson (2000), along with other notables from the poker, sports and entertainment worlds, Palansky said.Brazilian soccer star Neymar has qualified, and former Australian cricket star Shane Warne could play. Screen and television actors who may return include James Woods, Ray Romano, Brad Garrett and Jennifer Tilly, winner of a World Series of Poker womens event in 2005.Women have done very well in this tournament, but it has been 15 years since a woman made the final table, Palansky said. Will this be the year?The top-rated female poker pro in the world, Vanessa Selbst of Brooklyn, New York, could be a player to watch, Palansky said, along with Kristen Bicknell, from Ontario, Canada, and Loni Harwood of Staten Island, New York.Bicknell already won a gold bracelet this year, topping a field of more than 2,100 players in the tournaments $1,500 no-limit holdem bounty event.Negreanu said it will be harder to navigate through a field of 7,000 players than in years past, when the field was several hundred. Just 350 players entered the first year he played, in 1998.The winner also needs a little luck, he said.Palansky said players this year will start with a stack of 50,000 chips, compared with 30,000 last year. Players like chips, he said. Chips have no monetary value in the tournament, but a player is eliminated when his or hers are gone.The pool of winners will be 1,000 -- like last year -- or 15 percent of the entry field, whichever is greater.We paid 1,000 places in the Main Event last year for the first time, he said. It was so successful, we introduced it to all (69) events this year. This should have a nice halo effect for the Main Event, as more people should have the money to get into the granddaddy of all poker tournaments.Palansky said officials wont know until the final tables begin play on Monday whether the tournament will be affected by fluctuating values of the Euro and Canadian and Australian dollars following the United Kingdom vote last month to leave the European Union.He said a large number of Main Event players come from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland -- third behind the U.S. and Canada.We draw a lot of players from the United Kingdom, Palansky said. 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After trading points to get to 9-5, the Mustangs extended the lead out to 13-5 after a pair of attack errors by the Aggies. Texas A&M, which outhit the Mustangs, .244 to .224 in the frame, went on a 6-1 run to stabilize the match and cut the SMU lead to 14-13. The spurt featured two kills apiece by junior hitters Kiara McGee and Ashlie Reasor.The Mustangs stretched the advantage back to five points at 18-13 with a surge bracketed by Janelle Giordano kills. The squads exchanged the next four points to give SMU a 20-15 edge. The Aggies went on a 5-1 run with two kills by Babers and one kill each by Hans and Blake to pull within one point again at 21-20. The Mustangs extended the lead to 24-21 when Blake fought off a set point with a pair of kills before Lauren Mills put down the final kill of the stanza for SMU.The second set was tightly contested with the largest margin for either team being three points. The squads played on an even keel for the first 18 points with the score tied on nine occasions before SMU went on a 3-0 runn to take a 12-9 lead.dddddddddddd Babers and Blake each put down two kills as the Aggies drew even at 14-14, and Reasor floored a spike as the Maroon and White staked claim to a 15-14 margin.The score was knotted six more times in the second set on the way to a 22-22 tally. In the waning moments of the set, SMU, which outhit A&M, .239 to .204 in the set, took advantage of two attack errors by Texas A&M to take a 24-22 lead. Hans fended off one set point with a kill before Mills successful attack handed SMU the set, 25-23.The third set was once again a teeter-totter affair early on with teams playing to nine tie scores en route to a 10-10 score. The Mustangs broke away with a 7-1 run featuring two kills apiece by Kristen Stehling and Katie Hegarty. The Aggies, who were outhit, .289 to .075, made a run with two kills by Hans on a 4-0 run to cut the gap to 17-15. It would be the last time the Maroon and White would be within two points of the Mustangs and SMUs Giordano ended the match with a kill.In her last career match, Babers moved past Amy Cumings (1987-90) for 12th place on Texas A&Ms career kills list with 1,139. Junior libero Amy Nettles, who led the Aggies with 18 digs, passed Kelsey Black (2008-11) for 15th place on the career digs list with 1,113.Blake led A&M with four blocks, including three block assists to give her 145 for the season, tying for the third most in a season in program history and only nine short of the all-time recordIn addition to Babers, the all-time career leader in both total blocks and block assists, the match also was the last for senior outside hitter Emily Hardesty, defensive specialists Victoria Arenas and Katelyn Labhart and setter Kaysie Shebeneck. ' ' '