Despite a five-minute grace period in which the dealers would hold up play if one of the players in each match had yet to arrive, several poker heavyweights have yet to arrive at the Rio and are currently being blinded off. Freddy Deeb and David "The Dragon" Pham are no-shows so far, as is Kenny Tran, who has been blinded down to 16,500 from his original 20,000 starting stack.