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Lucky in Love, Landon Ricketts
Landon Ricketts

Lucky in Love

Landon Ricketts

Mission giver
Landon Ricketts
Location
Chuparosa
Starts at
Chuparosa
Ends at
Chuparosa
Unlocked by
Not stated

Player notes

John Marston finds Landon Ricketts at a poker table in Chuparosa and takes a seat with him, Andreas Müller and the other locals. The game lasts two hands before Müller claims that John has cheated him. The accusation brings every player to the verge of drawing a gun across the table, but Ricketts defuses the confrontation and persuades Müller to settle the matter in a duel.

John faces Müller in the street and shoots him dead. He then joins Ricketts for a drink, but one of the poker players approaches with a woman held at knifepoint. The man threatens her life in retaliation for Müller's death. John draws on him and kills him before he can harm the hostage.

Four of the dead man's companions emerge and open fire in Chuparosa. John and Ricketts fight them through the town, killing Manolo Santander, Selestino Herrada, Rigoberto Artiz and Paloma Figueras. When the shooting stops, John and Ricketts part company in Chuparosa.

Gallery

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Screenshots from Lucky in Love, mirrored from Red Dead Wiki.

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Trivia

  • ◆If the player looks under the table when the shot widens as Marston sits down, on Ricketts's right thigh is what seems to be a playing card. It is a cheat card since moments before, Ricketts is seen to be winning a lot of chips and later states he has already beaten Müller.
  • ◆When Marston says to Müller "As you wish, Germany. As you wish.", this is most likely a reference to the William Goldman novel The Princess Bride.
  • ◆After all the poker players and some other bystanders draw their guns and aim at each other, Müller says "There must be a name for this", which is a reference to the fact that they were in a "Mexican Standoff" in Mexico.
  • ◆No matter how many chips the player makes, the player will only get $50 from finishing the mission, losing money as the buy in at the poker table is $100.
  • ◆Ricketts may sometimes say he knows the girl the stranger is holding hostage and thus the player should be careful not to kill her.
  • ◆Even if any of the players in the poker game are defeated by being busted out, they will all still be playing in the cutscene thereafter.
  • ◆It is possible for everyone during the poker game to fold on both rounds, meaning instant chips for the player.
  • ◆It seems as though Müller can only be defeated if the player kills him. If the player attempts to shoot Müller's weapon or non-lethal areas, the blue bar will hardly increase, regardless of how accurately timed and Müller will more than likely defeat the player.
  • ◆At the beginning of the mission cutscene and after the poker game is ruined, two characters can be seen with the same character models as Raudel Diaz and Gustavo Andares from the Multiplayer. According to the game files using a mod, they are listed as "Müller gang", although they do not appear at all in the mission outside of cutscenes.
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Last verified September 14, 2026