Video taking off 11x its usual first day

Bill Gazes gets aces, Tony Licastro gets the flop

World Poker Tour's Foxwoods highlight turns poker's strongest starting hand into a helpless spectator.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 184,738 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (16,458).

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The river can't help. Bill Gazes gets another ace on the final card, but by then his opponent's straight has already settled the hand.

World Poker Tour's latest fast-moving Short revisits a Foxwoods confrontation with a particularly cruel finish. It drew roughly 126,000 views in its first 12 hours, already far beyond the channel's usual full-day audience for Shorts.

Gazes starts with pocket aces, the best starting hand in Texas hold'em. Better still, his opponents are raising into him: Nick Schulman makes a substantial re-raise with a bluff, then Tony Licastro commits his stack holding king-ten of different suits.

Gazes pushes all-in over the top. Schulman gets out of the way, leaving the aces against a hand that needs considerable help.

That help arrives together: nine, queen, jack. Licastro has flopped a straight. He celebrates with the crowd while Mike Sexton and Vince Van Patten supply the astonishment from the commentary booth. The turn ends Gazes' remaining chance before the last ace adds an unnecessary sting.

The comments dwell on that final card, compare the hand with their own poker misfortunes and notice the composure required to offer a polite acknowledgment afterward. One running joke is familiar to anyone who's watched a risky play work out: apparently bad decisions get rewarded, just not when you're the one making them.

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What viewers say

Poker rewards bad decisions unless I’m the one making it.
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what a gentleman saying 'nice hand'. I have to work on myself to achieve that "no cursing" mindset
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I was half expecting the other 2 aces 😂
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Last Ace was savage
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The facts

Channel: World Poker Tour
Subscribers: 982,000 ▲ 3,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 7,423,617
Channel views, pace per day: 1,241,964 (on a normal day: 1,238,088)
Video published: October 16, 2026
Video views so far: 125,811 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 184,738

The numbers

The aces highlight has already cleared the channel's usual first-day Shorts audience. Its comment section is also much busier than a typical opening day.

the video's first day

usual first day here

16,458

this video

184,738

subscribers

982,000

▲ 3,000 in the last 7 days

total views

806,301,346

views per day

1,241,964