The Cast Of The Duel Blackjack Table

The short answer

Who are the Duel Blackjack characters?

The Duel Blackjack table runs a small troupe of recurring on-felt characters. The three regulars are Freakbob (a person in a SpongeBob costume), Monarch (Ossi Ketola, the Duel.com founder, who has dealt cards himself), and Mila, a recurring dealer. Around them rotate one-off bits: a Batman cosplayer, an Andrew Tate-themed dealer, and other shock characters.

Here's the line that trips people up. These are table personas and cosplayers — performers and stunts engineered for the stream. They are not the same thing as the real public figures who have crossed paths with Duel. Andrew Tate, Bonnie Blue, Lord Miles and Doug Polk are real people; we track them separately on our celebrities-at-Duel page.

If you've landed here cold, two explainers give the context: how Duel blackjack actually works as a live crypto product, and the question every clip raises — is the game rigged?

The breakdown

Each character, in one paragraph

Freakbob — the SpongeBob in the corner

"Freakbob" is the name the internet pinned on a man in a SpongeBob SquarePants costume who turns up at Duel's table during its most provocative segments. He functions as a recurring shock character rather than a friendly mascot: several of his appearances escalated into sexualised stunts during real-money hands and drew direct criticism from gambling press, per Tribuna. We document those moments factually and never repost the footage. Full file: who is Freakbob.

Monarch — the founder who deals

Monarch is the online handle of Ossi Ketola, the Finnish entrepreneur behind Duel.com and the CS skin-gambling site CSGOEmpire. On 5 May 2026 he did something casino owners almost never do on camera: he sat in as the live blackjack dealer himself, turning the boss into part of the show, as Tribuna reported. He's the one "character" who's just a real person with a username. The Monarch profile has the detail.

Mila — the recurring dealer

Mila is one of the table's repeat dealers. She belongs in the cast because she keeps reappearing — but several of her segments are among the platform's most serious, including a broadcast that involved Nazi-salute roleplay opposite a Black co-host, documented by CasinosInCanada. We log this neutrally as a matter of record, not as entertainment. The wider pattern sits on our controversy tracker; her own page is here.

The rotating bits — cosplay of the week

Beyond the regulars, Duel cycles one-off characters to keep clips fresh: a Batman cosplayer, an Andrew Tate-themed dealer impression, and assorted costume gags. These come and go week to week, which is exactly the point — novelty drives the next screenshot. Most surface once in the moments feed and then vanish.