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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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Because it isnt truly best-on-best unless countries have all their best players at their disposal. Team USA should have had access to Johnny Gaudreau, Jack Eichel, Brandon Saad and Auston Matthews. Hey, the Americans might have still lost, but at least they would have been able to pick from among all their best options. And Connor McDavid should have been on Team Canada (a scary thought, given how Canada has romped through this tournament).The point is, best-on-best was coined for the old Canada Cup tournaments because, unlike the Olympic hockey competitions of the time, the Canada Cup truly showcased the best NHLers from each country. So, I would suggest the top eight hockey countries return for 2020, with the last two spots to be determined in a European qualification tournament in the summer of 2019. And if the NHL doesnt participate in the 2018 Olympics in South Korea (plenty left to play out on that end either way), then its even more imperative for the NHL and the NHL Players Association to return with a traditional, country-only format so that theres a best-on-best event that truly crowns the best country in the world that year. -- Pierre LeBrunThis is a tough question for me, because my favorite part of this World Cup was watching Team North America play. The kids put in the two best games of the tournament, against Russia and Sweden, and yet I dont think they should be here again. For the World Cup to matter as much as it should, hockey needs to follow soccers example. Every four years, it should stage a best-on-best tournament, featuring the eight highest-seeded countries in the world.I like the size and duration of this tournament, except Id make the final a single game to improve the chances of an upset. Id have one city host the World Cup, but Id move the event around among the competing countries from year to year and give it a more genuinely international flavor. Reserve the Olympics for the kids -- 23 and under, again, just like soccer. Then we get to see the games brightest young stars every two years, and were only asking for more from its horses every four. Two different tournaments, with two different feels. And with the World Cup being the most inclusive and meaningful of them all. -- Chris JonesThe two best stories in this World Cup were Team North America capturing the heart of hockey fans everywhere and Team Europe making a Cinderella run. I see that my colleagues are trying to euthanize both of them. Theyre just as heartless as I always suspected.Im not interested in bringing Germany or Slovakia back into the mix, only to get steamrolled by Canada. I loved the stories of the players on Team Europe who beat major powers during international play for the first time in their lives. I say let it continue.My only changes would be to add a quarterfinal round so we dont see another scenario where the kids are sent home after going 2-1 and playing out of theeir minds.dddddddddddd Id give Team USA and Canada an exemption or two to grab a player off the North American team they might need, and Id allow anybody who had previously played on North America to try out for their national team. If they make it, theyre on. If not, they can return and give us Young Guns 2. -- Craig CustanceIm a big believer in building the game of hockey at the grassroots level. The World Cup of Hockey concept had me intrigued from Day 1. While the creation of Team North America and Team Europe seemed like a gimmick at first, it actually was all about building the sport. It took Team Europe coach Ralph Krueger to make me realize that.If, by some chance, theres a child in one of those European countries who falls in love with this great game and develops into a solid human being because of hockey -- even if he or she doesnt become a pro player -- then this tournament was a success. You dont have to reach the NHL to be considered a success story. A life in hockey, in any fashion, at any level, helps the game and society. Theres a much bigger picture to the World Cup and Krueger is right.Now, I also agree with many hockey people that a best-on-best tournament should be country versus country. The best-case scenario would be to compete at the Olympic level, but if the NHL could figure out a way to make the World Cup an exciting and successful event, Im all for keeping it in the four-year loop. Yes, logistics are a challenge, as weve seen in 2016, but for the betterment of the game and the continued development of kids around the world, this event needs to continue. -- Joe McDonaldI must admit that I really wrestled with this whole proposition of whats next for the World Cup. The first edition of the tournament in 12 years?was, in some ways, a perfect storm, with the dynamic -- some would even say inspirational -- play of Team North America, and the plucky determination of Team Europe in reaching the finals against powerhouse Canada.Many folks, including some of my colleagues, want to do away with both teams. I think that would be a mistake. No international tournament has ever had the level of NHL participation that the 2016 World Cup of Hockey has. To willfully move away from that just to introduce teams that will play a less-inspiring brand of hockey -- and that is what a true, Olympic-style tournament will produce -- would be self-defeating.To cover both ends of the argument, lets expand the field to 12 -- a la the Olympics -- with two spots reserved for Team North America, part deux, and Team Europe, which would be composed of players from nations that did not qualify in a qualifying tournament. No pretournament games would be played, to keep the length of the event manageable.As for the location, thats even more difficult. The NHL has insisted that every ticket for every game in Toronto was sold. If you split a 12-team tournament between two cities, would fans bite? And can you find a place in North America or Europe to achieve this, so as to legitimately call it a World Cup? What about Toronto and Buffalo? Or Washington and Pittsburgh? Its a lot to ask, but especially if the Olympics become a nonfactor for the NHL moving forward, I cant imagine that cities in North America and abroad wouldnt be clamoring to have hockeys best visit for a couple of weeks in September. -- Scott Burnside ' ' '