Side betting for enriched game play environment (single and/or multiplayer) for casino applications

A gaming system for processing a side bet in a hybrid game having an entertainment game and a gambling game, the gaming system comprising:

• a real world engine connected to a game world engine by a network, the real world engine constructed to determine a gambling outcome for a wager of an amount of real world credit in accordance with a gambling proposition of the gambling game using a trigger accepted from the game world engine;
• an entertainment software engine connected to the game world engine, the entertainment software engine constructed to:
• provide the entertainment game to a player, the entertainment game having a game world and entertainment game objects used by the player in the context of the game world;
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• generate a game play outcome based on the actions taken by the player in the context of the game world;
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• the game world engine connected to the real world engine and the entertainment software engine, wherein the game world engine is constructed to:
• present to the player, a proposal of a side bet regarding the game play outcome, the side bet having as a wager an amount of the entertainment game objects, and the side bet having a payout of entertainment game objects;
• monitor the actions taken by the player in the context of the game world of the entertainment game of during the player's playing of the entertainment game;
• trigger the wager of the amount of real world credits in the real world engine based on the actions taken by the player in the context of the game world of the entertainment game;
• make the payout of entertainment game objects for the side bet using the game play outcome based on the actions taken by the player in the context of the game world;
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• update a state of the entertainment game based on the payout of entertainment game objects of the side bet.