Arm Wrestling

Arm Wrestling is an activity in Red Dead Redemption that involves the player putting their strength as John Marston against an NPC to pin their hand to a table. In single-player, you may arm wrestle for a sum of Money that you may bet on. If you win, you get your money plus the NPC's money. If you lose however, you lose the money you bet.

It is impossible to play this in multiplayer.

Tips and Tricks

 * Closely watch your opponents face, if your opponent is struggling and putting a lot of force behind their arm your best bet is to defend by holding X(PS3) or A(360).


 * Whenever your strength bar(the green bar on the left-hand side) is all filled up start smashing the A/X button, stop when its half-way down and start defending to regain strength.


 * When you are close to winning and almost have your opponents arm smashed to the table a special move unlocks, Hit X(360) or Square(ps3) when it appears on screen to smash your opponents hand. Your strength bar must be full to do a finishing move.
 * For the U.S. Army outfit win you will need to play and beat two NPC's in the one sitting to unlock the acheivement. You will automatically stand up at the end of these two matches.