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One of the criteria in Red Dead Redemption for achieving the Treasure Hunter outfit is playing blackjack at Rathskeller Fork and leaving with a profit. That doesn’t sound so bad, until you realize that the dealers in Red Dead play the game basically like a real one in Vegas would; they make you play forever.

We're all adults who can tell the difference between reality and fantasy. I'm not going to go out and murder someone after letting my version of John Marston go on a bullet spree in Armadillo. And yet something very real may have gripped me: gambling, courtesy of Red Dead Redemption.

A brief survey of the demographic and psychological differences between the audiences of video games and gambling, and how those differences are disappearing