The guide below documents an easy, fast, and profitable way of going about the casino heist. There are many more different ways to do the heists, and this guide merely aims to provide sensible suggestions. By all means, adapt it to match your preferences and play style.

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Sewer Tunnel – near the river past the racetrack, across the street from the casino, you'll find the entrance to the sewer tunnel. Get inside and you'll find a gate on your right. Main points of interest. Security Guard – standing next to the elevator by the front desk; Keypad – on the casino floor, next to restricted access doors.
If you are looking for our 'vanilla' Casino Heist guides, our Silent & Sneaky approach guide is here, our Big Con approach guide here and our Aggressive guide can be found here. Make sure you also check out how to unlock the elite hacker Avi Schwartzman for more time in the vault, our payout guide, and also the POI and access point guide.

The big con and silent approaches seem most profitable. Aggressive can be avoided entirely, but for the sake of completeness, it is also covered below.

The Diamond Casino Heist is a new heist job in GTA Online's Diamond Casino and Resort update. The casino heist is by far the most complicated heist GTA Online players have seen, but it offers some good ways to make a lot of money along the way. The GTA Casino Heist scope out mission has 11 access points, as well as various points of interest. Access points include doors and ways into the building and points of interest are security.

If you are looking for our 'vanilla' Casino Heist guides, our Silent & Sneaky approach guide is here, our Big Con approach guide here and our Aggressive guide can be found here. Make sure you also check out how to unlock the elite hacker Avi Schwartzman for more time in the vault, our payout guide, and also the POI and access point guide.

Written by mattiejas, with further input from threepwood, mathilya, myst, madebywitt, roofstone, aleksander, herokin, psychicwarlock.

Current version: 1.0.3 (15 December 2020).

Approach Independent Preparations

The Big Con

Silent & Sneaky

Aggressive

General Remarks

Have a fast airborne vehicle. The Oppressor Mk II is recommended for fairly good speed, agility, and accurate rockets. For some missions, a Pyro or Hydra can be helpful (especially if doing all the preps solo). A Buzzard will do nicely too, and can be easily called nearby through the CEO menu.
Quite a lot of casino heist preps involve having to kill a lot of enemies on the ground. The rampage ability of the stone hatchet is your best friend to clean these areas quickly and in relative safety, especially when going solo. It is also really fun. Be sure to unlock it.
Complete all six casino missions (the story ones, starting with “Loose Cheng”). It will give you access to the Security Intel prep, which will enable you to see all cameras on the map. The prep itself also only needs to be done once.
Collect all 54 player cards. It allows you to permanently skip one of the big con preps, saving you time in the longer term.

Approach Independent Preparations

Crew Members

For all approaches, these choices work well:

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Gunman: Karl Abolaji (5%) – Micro SMG.
Driver: Karim Denz (5%) – Sentinel Classic.
Hacker: Paige Harris (9%). She will give you 3m25s in the vault, which allows you to collect more.

Vault Contents (1p)

Just follow Lester’s lead. Either hack the phone, or just shoot the target and pick up the phone (you can lose cops whilst heading back to the casino, Lester will not be available for losing cops). Note that you can run slightly faster inside the casino by switching to first person view. Change the security camera view until you are looking inside the vault. When Lester tells you what you have, quit the camera view, and get out of there. Stay away from any guards, as that may trigger a wanted level, even after completing the hack.

Unmarked Weapons (1p or 2p)

Choose the micro SMG loadout.

Variant 1 (clubhouse): If you have Paleto Bay, it can be useful to call a Hydra or a Pyro to save on transportation time. Kill everyone with rockets outside the clubhouse, then enter the clubhouse and eliminate everyone inside (stone hatchet works lovely). Grab the weapons and get out of there.

Variant 2 (vans): Approach the NOOSE vans, and shoot it with a rocket using your Oppressor Mk II. Sadly rockets do not lock onto the van, but it is not so hard to manually aim onto the van with your Oppressor Mk II from behind the van. If it has the weapons then destroy the van (it will take quite a few rockets). Once destroyed, two weapon crates will drop. Note that you could also steal the van and drive it back to the arcade, however that’s much slower. Pick up and deliver any weapon crates whilst losing the cops on your way back to the arcade.

Variant 3 (smugglers): Go to the checkpoint with the CEO Buzzard. Ignore the enemies and jump out of the Buzzard when you are nearing the plane. Parachute onto the plane wings (it helps to press shift for a precision landing), and press F to enter the plane. Deliver it to Sandy Shores. Note that you will get enemy helicopters as soon as you take the plane, but you can just ignore them as they do not cause much damage. If your flying aim is good, you can simply nosedive the plane directly into the checkpoint (at a not too steep angle). Be sure your landing gear is lowered. 😉

Note: There are a few more variants (barrage, cargo plane, and cement works), however these appear not to trigger with Karl Abolaji as gunman.

Getaway Vehicles (1p or 2p)

Choose the Sentinel Classic, as this is the fastest car, and has solid handling.

Variant 1 (importers): Kill everyone on location. The Sentinel Classic vehicles can take 3 rockets before blowing up, so it is fairly safe to use the Oppressor Mk II rockets to do so, or alternatively, use the stone hatchet if you want to play it safe. Then grab the vehicles and get out of there.

Variant 2 (valets): Scare the valets by pointing a gun at them, take outfits, and then grab the cars when Lester tells you. Make sure to keep your weapons hidden whilst waiting for the cars.

Variant 3 (depot): Go to the police depot. Do not kill any cops. Instead, stay out of sight whilst taking and moving the cars. It is safe to run in the depot, as the cops will not hear you. For reference, a map of the depot is shown. There is only one patrolling guard, with a patrol route as indicated. The cars are always in the same location, so it is just a matter of safely moving cars to free a route for the target car to exit the depot, moving away from the patrolling guard whenever he comes near. Make sure to stay out of sight from the cops on the outside at the entrance of the depot. The best way to avoid them is to turn immediately to the left as soon as you exit the depot.

If you want to this fast, upon first entry, you can immediately run towards the bottom right car (on the above map, it will be on your left side in-game as you enter the compound) as you enter the compound (using the recommended route) and move one car that is blocking the target car, before the guard can spot you. Then go in the target car, wait for the guard to pass, and then head to the exit. For the other car, wait until the guard patrol is leaving the bottom left corner of his route, then quickly run straight ahead towards the first blocking car, move it slightly back, run towards the second blocking car, move it out of the way into the corner, and then you should still have enough time to grab the target car and drive to the exit before the guard is back.

Variant 4 (race): To avoid a gunfight, wait at the point where th

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