The Diamond Casino & Resort

Published 20:00 Jul 21 2019 EDTUpdated 22:25 Nov 9 2025 EST

The Diamond Casino & Resort update for GTA Online is one of the most significant and content-rich additions to the game yet. This guide will walk you through everything you need to know to make the most of your time at the Diamond. We'll cover how to gain access to the casino, the co-op and casino work missions, all the ways you can gamble and win big, the customizable penthouse that can become your new home, hidden collectibles to discover, and the sleek new vehicles that can be yours.

We also have a guide to the Diamond Casino Heist.

Gaining Access To The Diamond Casino

Like most DLCs since Further Adventures in Finance and Felony, to actually access the new content at the Diamond Casino you'll need to make an initial investment of sorts.

Previously, this involved buying specific properties like offices or bunkers, but you can't buy the Diamond Casino this time around, no matter how many Shark Cards you've splurged on. Instead, players must buy memberships which give them access to the gambling opportunities at the Casino.

Standard Diamond memberships don't cost too much, but they also come with limited perks — you can only access the casino portion of the Diamond and even then, not all gambling activities. You will gain access to the Diamond's garage though, allowing you to store one car.

Instead, to access the Resort, the high-limit tables and more, you'll need a VIP membership, which is significantly more expensive.

This membership nets you a fancy penthouse which you can customize to your heart's desire, including with a personal spa, partying area, roof garden access, exquisite artworks and more. You'll also have the opportunity to try your luck as a real high-roller at the high-limit tables in the Diamond Casino, and insert coins again and again at the retro arcade.

The main attraction of getting a VIP membership, however, is gaining access to Diamond Casino Missions.

Casino Missions

Two kinds of missions will become available to you once you have a VIP membership. Co-op Missions (which can also be completed solo as of a December 13, 2022 update) follow a loose storyline involving a hostile Texan oil magnate trying to encroach upon Tao Cheng's business. Cheng, the owner of the Diamond, looks to his illustrious and infamous clientele to protect his business interests.

There are a total of six co-op missions, all of which pay out extra rewards the first time you complete them. The standard payout for completing a mission is GTA$11,000 — 15,000 depending on the time it takes, however you get an additional GTA$50,000 the first time you finish each one, which doubles up to GTA$100,000 on the last one.

The order of the co-op missions is as follows:

Loose Cheng
Housekeeping
Strongarm Tactics
Play To Win
Bad Beat
Cashing Out

If you host the co-op lobby and manage to complete all six missions in order, in one sitting, you'll get an exclusive "hidden" vehicle. The Enus Armored Paragon car is spawned at the docks if you are eligible, and cannot be acquired in any other way.

There is another bonus payout of GTA$ 500,000 if you manage to play through the six missions in order the first time you play them. If you play the missions but don't finish them in order, you won't have another chance to try for this bonus, ever. This adds on top of the other first-time completion bonuses, and the bonus GTA$ 50,000 gained from every mission completed without a death.

Note that co-op missions cannot be played solo. There is also no way to ensure that you are the host of the given session — it's a gamble!

In addition, to be able to progress within the co-op missions, the host must elect to do so. So unless you are hosting yourself, or get lucky with a competent host, you might be stuck repeating the same mission. Currently, there is no easy workaround for this.

You can keep retrying when joining Casino Missions to see if you get lucky by being the host. Keep in mind that to get the Host bonuses, you need to play through all six missions as host. If you've been playing through them but only Host the last one, for example, you don't get the Enus Armored Paragon.

The other kind of missions are Casino Work Missions, accessible by calling Agatha Baker. These are less lucrative than the co-op missions and lack the overarching storyline, but can be completed quicker and alone.

Services

Once you become a member of the Diamond by purchasing a penthouse, you can call Agatha Baker for one of three things. These services are entirely free of charge. These are not available if you have a wanted level.

Car Service

You can call Ms. Baker to request a vehicle to be spawned. The options are limited, with the Cognoscenti Cabrio, the Windsor, the Fugitive, the Super Diamond, the Dubsta, and the Feltzer — the fastest among the choices — being available. You don't need to own any of these vehicles to be able to order one.

The spawned car cannot be placed into a garage or insured and the game does not consider them personal or Pegasus vehicles giving them a new marker. The cars aren't stock, but carry certain upgrades such as bulletproof tires and performance upgrades.

Note that the cars are set to public access, so any other player can enter and steal the car if you're not careful. The vehicle will spawn right next to your character when called. If you enter a building interior the ordered car will automatically despawn. There is a 2-minute cooldown for using this service starting after the vehicle is spawned.

Limousine Service

The limo service works in a very similar manner as the taxi service, but as mentioned previously, is free for penthouse owners. When called, the limo will spawn right beside the player and can be either white or black. When you sit in, the limo will automatically drive towards the Diamond, but you can also set a waypoint and it will drive you there.

The limo driver will not be intimidated by attacks or weapon use and will only exit the limo if it flips over. This feature makes the limo a perfect getaway vehicle if you need to escape from cops, enemies or other players. You can kill the driver and take the car, but it cannot be stored or tracked, and doing so will yield a wanted level.

You can give the driver various instructions, such as to speed up, slow down, or to stop entirely.

An additional feature of the Limo service is that when called from your penthouse's landline, or ordered from the Diamond Casino's front desk, it can be used as a free fast travel feature instantly transporting you to one of the locations marked on the map below (made by @borqer):

Casino Work

You can also request additional missions from Agatha Baker, as mentioned above in the Missions section. These missions can be completed alone and take anywhere between 2 to 15 minutes to complete depending on which variant you get. You cannot choose the mission type, as that is randomly assigned.

The reward for successfully completing a mission is 5,000 Chips and GTA$5,000-10,000 depending on time taken. There are at least 14 confirmed mission variants. These jobs have a hidden 3 minute cooldown and the locations are randomized. Completing 50 Casino Work Missions will grant you a bonus of GTA$180,000.

Safe Bet — Escort a security van to the Diamond from a random point on the map while defending it from waves of enemy attackers driving Kurumas and bikes.
Bargaining Chips — Search through 5 zones each with a suspect for a thief who stole chips from the Diamond. The thief NPC cannot be locked on, but does not escape due to weapons fire. The Thief can be killed, which will give you a wanted level, or pressured into returning the chips. This can be the longest mission depending on how many areas you need to search before finding the thief, so it may not be worth doing.
When the chips are down — Go to the mission area, clear out hostiles, use the provided sticky bombs to destroy supplies.
Undisclosed Cargo — Take a corpse in the trunk of the provided car to a drop-off point. The route will be watched by unmarked police vehicles that will cause a mission failure if you attract attention.
Recovery Time — Retrieve a vehicle from an impound lot by stealthly stealing the key, then driving the vehicle back to the Diamond. Even if you are not detected, taking the vehicle out of the lot will give you an automatic wanted level.
Department of Defense — Protect the Diamond from attacking thugs, then tail their van to the gang leader. Make sure to stay far away from the van since the line of sight goes through buildings and the detection range is large.
Lost in Transit — Track a stolen van by listening for gunshots, kill the hostiles, retrieve the van and drive it back to the Diamond while fending off waves of two attacking Kurumas.
Severance — Go to the mission area, then chase down and kill the chip thief on a bike before he reaches LSIA. The bike cannot be locked on to, and the thief cannot be knocked off the bike. When you retrieve the stolen chips you get an automatic wanted level, which you need to lose, then return the money to the Diamond.
Best Laid Plans — Prevent a heist in the Diamond. First you need to take out one of the heist crew members, steal his keycard, reach the mission area and kill the other heist members. Access the laptop, then travel to the marked locations to finish off the remaining enemies.
Judgement Call — Intimidate a judge with a warning shot or by beating him up with a bat. You are given a suppressed pistol and a baseball bat for this mission. You need to approach the mission area and kill the guards stealthily — detection causes mission failure. You need to intimidate the judge several times and he will attempt to flee in a vehicle. This can be avoided to finish the mission quickly, but if he reaches the vehicle, you will need to chase him while being attacked by waves of two Kurumas. You need to cripple the wheels of the judge's getaway car and then intimidate him. Killing the judge causes mission failure.
High Rollin' — Drive a limo with a VIP to the Diamond. Driving faster than 40 MPH will decrease the GTA$ reward of the mission.
Fake News - Locate a News Rump Van in one of five marked locations. Once you find the van, tail it to the next location where a reported will get out. Knock out or kill the reporter, retrieve their wallet and leave the mission area.
One Armed Bandit - Go to the docks and identify the objective container based on a code, which is being guarded by opponents. Deliver the container to the Diamond using the Skylift.
Damage Control - Drive a Mule back to the Diamond within the allotted time. Triggers randomly when the player blacks out from Macbeth shots at the Casino Bar.

Gambling

Gambling Geo Restrictions: Gambling options in the Diamond Casino may not be available in your region. Certain regions will display a "This feature is not available for you" message when attempting to play a gambling mini-game. Some regions still allow the purchase of chips, so make sure to try using the complimentary chips first! Check our list of restricted countries below.

Of course, chances are you'll be spending most of your time in the Diamond Casino at the tables. Gambling options are somewhat limited and you can only play against the house. The games are heavily abstracted to fit into the mini-game structure, so knowledge of the actual rules of Blackjack or Poker isn't necessary — the game contains a rundown of its own rules.

You'll be able to win additional chips, GTA$, and items at the tables and slots, but you'll also be losing a lot along the way, so make sure to gamble responsibly — especially if you're the kind of player that spends on Shark Cards.

The full selection of gambling options include Blackjack, Three Card Poker, Roulette, Slots, Lucky Wheel and Inside Track.

Gambling mini-games are played with chips and there are no opportunities to play against other players. Chips can be bought with GTA$, and they can also be cashed out as GTA$ when you're finished.

A Standard Diamond Membership, required to access the casino, will grant you 5,000 chips as a welcoming gift, and >all players can claim 1,000 bonus chips daily.

The conversion rate is 1 Chip = 1 GTA$.

You can purchase a maximum of 50,000 chips every in-game day, which equates to 48 minutes in real-time. It is possible to circumvent this timer by purchasing the maximum number of chips, disconnecting your internet, reconnecting, and logging back into GTA Online. Your timer will be reset.

Blackjack

The version of Blackjack used in GTA Online has a few slight quirks. The dealer uses four decks with 80 face cards, and the decks are shuffled after each hand.

Counting cards seems to be a viable strategy in Blackjack, and can help you increase your win rate. Even using a basic strategy chart will help you get a bit of an edge, though the game is still weighed in the house's favor. Something that many players have noted and documented is that the house "cheats" in so far as the dealer will often have access to more 21 cards than should be possible, and pulls them up at the worst possible moments.

Nonetheless, a basic chart like this one, from Blackjack Apprenticeship, should help you out at the tables.

Three Card Poker

Three Card Poker is a simpler game, but the odds are also more in favor of the house. You need to get a 2 pair which consist of two 2 cards, a 3 pair consisting of three 3s, a straight which is a hand of a 5, a 6 and a 7, or a flush which is a 8, a 9 and a 10 of the same suit. The flush is the strongest hand.

The basic strategy here is quite simple, but as a result of the odds and simplicity of the strategy, its efficacy is also somewhat limited. Simply put, you shouldn't make pair plus bets in order to maximize your profits.

Statistically, an easy rule of thumb to follow is that you should fold hands that are weaker than a Queen, a 6 and a 4, and call with a hand that is equal to or stronger than that hand.

Roulette

There's a lot less strategy involved in roulette than in the card games, if you can call these tips 'strategy at all'. This is one of those games where hunches or personal superstitions come into play. Some people always put on red, some always on black.

If there can be any actual tips for increasing your winnings, it would be to pay attention to how the results tally out and try to make an educated guess on what the next result will be.

Slots, Inside Track

We lumped these two together for a simple reason — there is absolutely no strategy involved, and it comes down to pure luck. Go with your gut, and bet low.

Lucky Wheel

Spinning the Diamond Casino's Lucky Wheel is an easy way to win if you are using a controller (including a PC controller). It works by rotating the left analog stick. The speed at which the wheel turns is directly proportional to how quickly you twist the stick, so with a bit of practice, you can win exactly what you want from the wheel. You can spin the Lucky Wheel once every real-time day.

It is possible to reset the timer by immediately disconnecting your internet after you spun the wheel. Note that this will allow you to spin again, but you won't retain your reward if done correct, because the whole point of the method is to prevent the servers from saving.

Lucky Wheel prizes include large sums of chips, a "mystery" reward which is undefined and even a free high-end vehicle, which rotates — both literally on a circular podium in the Diamond lobby, and figuratively, with a different vehicle being on offer each week.

There are over 130 possibilities when rolling a Mystery reward. So far, these have been confirmed: