Duel launches season two of blackjack livestreams with celebrity lookalikes

Braden Peters, better known online as Clavicular and a looksmaxxing influencer with roughly a million Instagram followers, headlined the stream as its main guest, the same slot Duel has used before to pull recognizable faces onto its blackjack table. Partway through, he told players betting under $25 to clear their seats so other people could sit down and play — an odd request for a casino livestream, unless the actual goal was simply keeping the table turning over instead of catering to any one guest.

The cast around him leaned fully into the absurd: lookalikes standing in for Andrew Tate, Clavicular himself, and Duel founder Ossi Ketola, plus a diminutive Kanye West impersonator who performed “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” for the camera. None of it was subtle, and none of it seemed designed to be.

None of that ended up being the most-shared part of the broadcast. A man costumed as Gollum walked up to Clavicular, delivered a flat “my precious,” and climbed directly onto the blackjack table itself, pausing the hand in progress for a few minutes while everyone on camera figured out what to do with him.

Clips of the moment were on X within hours, with some already past 100,000 views — proof that a livestream built around gambling can still get upstaged by a guy in a Gollum costume climbing furniture. The stunt did more for the stream’s reach than the actual card game seemed to, at least judging by which clips actually spread.