

The amount lost is between 0.12% - 0.26% of the total cash you are carrying at the time.

There's also no guarantee that you will walk away with the exact amount stated in this guide because as you get into combat situations and take damage you will lose a small amount of money for every hit you take. The Hard Mode prep board when looting diamonds using the Big Con Approach Avoid Damage You do get a monetary bonus for all this added effort though - a 10% increase on the actual potential take versus "regular" difficulty! You can check out a video of us doing Hard Mode and looting diamonds here. There will also be six locks to destroy on the vault instead of the normal four, and two fingerprint hacks to do (instead of the regular one). This means that the guards will be stronger, there will be more of them and their detection rate will be higher. Plus, the approach you are repeating (Aggressive in our example) will now have a Red Skull icon on it (as seen above) indicating that hard mode / higher difficulty will be activated if you proceed with that approach again. The red skull indicates that this approach will be done on "hard mode". However, you can return to a previous approach if you use a different approach in the meantime (like doing Aggressive, then Big Con, then back to Aggressive). When doing the Casino Heist you cannot use the same approach twice in a row (it will be locked). For example, during the Valentines Day events of 2020, it was observed that obtaining diamonds (usually the rarest) became a lot more common/easy. Note, however, that it appears Rockstar has the ability to adjust the probability of getting a particular type of loot. So cash is most common, followed by artwork and so on through to diamonds. In fact, it correlates to the maximum potential payout of the loot types. Which loot you will receive is completely random, but some loot will appear more often than others. As you can see in the table above, gold and finally diamonds are easily the most profitable types of loot though. It's preferable to get artwork over cash not only because you earn more, but the paintings themselves are actually easier / faster to loot.

Note that the first time you do the heist you will always get cash, and on subsequent attempts you might get artwork, gold or diamonds. Casino Heist Maximum Payout Table Vault Contents
