Caesars Rewards Diamond takes 15,000 Tier Credits in a calendar year. On reel slots that is $75,000 of coin-in, and that's the number people quote. Coin-in is the money that passes through the machine, and most of it comes back to you. What Diamond costs is the expected loss: $6,000 on slots spread across the year, and about $230 on video poker played on one bonus day.
| Route to Diamond | Coin-in | Expected loss |
|---|---|---|
| Reel slots, spread across the year | $75,000 | $6,000 |
| Reel slots, one bonus day of 5,000 credits | $25,000 | $2,000 |
| 9/6 video poker played right, spread across the year | $150,000 | $690 |
| 9/6 video poker played right, one bonus day | $50,000 | $230 |
Caesars earns 1 Tier Credit per $5 on reel slots and 1 per $10 on video poker. At the 8% reel-slot hold the comps guide uses, $75,000 of slot play costs $6,000 on average.
Two things cut the price. The first is Caesars' daily Tier Credit bonus. Earn 5,000 Tier Credits inside one promotional day and Caesars adds 10,000. That's 15,000, Diamond in a day, and Caesars says so on its own chart. Slot coin-in drops to $25,000 and the expected loss to $2,000.
The second is the game. Video poker earns credits half as fast, so it needs twice the coin-in. But 9/6 Jacks or Better played correctly has a house edge of 0.46% against the slots' 8%, which is 17 times smaller. On one bonus day that's $50,000 of video poker and about $230 of expected loss: the same card at 1/26 of the slot price.
The bonus pays one level per promotional day, every day, so the higher tiers stack several bonus days.
| Tier (Tier Credits) | Slots spread | Slots, bonus days | Video poker spread | Video poker, bonus days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Platinum (5,000) | $2,000 | $1,000 | $230 | $115 |
| Diamond (15,000) | $6,000 | $2,000 | $690 | $230 |
| Diamond Plus (25,000) | $10,000 | $3,600 | $1,150 | $414 |
| Diamond Elite (75,000) | $30,000 | $10,000 | $3,450 | $1,150 |
The bonus-day plans: Platinum is one day of 2,500 (+5,000). Diamond Plus is three days (1,000, 2,500 and 5,000, worth 24,500 with bonuses) plus 500 more on any day, so 9,000 earned in all. Diamond Elite is five days of 5,000, which is 25,000 earned and 50,000 in bonuses. Seven Stars (150,000) is invitation-only, and so is Olympus, so neither can be bought on a plan.
Pick the tier, put in the Tier Credits you already have this year, and it works out what the rest costs and whether it fits before December 31.
| Tier Credits still needed | |
|---|---|
| Tier Credits you earn yourself | |
| Coin-in (the published price) | |
| Hours of play at your bet | |
| Swing, one standard deviation |
$230 is the average. Nine-six Jacks or Better has a variance of about 19.5 per hand (Shackleford), so 2,000 hands at $25 have a standard deviation of about $4,900. About one player in three running the one-day plan finishes more than $4,900 away from the average, up or down. The cheap route is only cheap on average, so bring a bankroll that can take the swing. The calculator shows it for your bet. Nobody publishes a variance for reel slots, so it's left out there.
Caesars' benefits page lists, for Diamond: no resort fees on any hotel stay, 15% off best available room rates (10% at Gold and Platinum), a guaranteed room with 72 hours' notice in Las Vegas and Atlantic City, early check-in and late check-out when available, a $100 Celebration Dinner (or $50 with Uber Eats), priority lines at check-in, restaurants, cages and the Rewards Center, and the VIP reservations line. The status is for the following year: Tier Credits reset to 0 every January 1.
So price it against your own trips. Count the nights you'll stay at a Caesars property next year, multiply by its posted resort fee, and add the $100 dinner. If that beats the column you'd actually play, Diamond pays. If you would never play $50,000 of video poker on one day, the honest price is a lower row, and it may not.
Station, Venetian and Resorts World are priced the same way in the tier price calculator. Comps and rebates are covered in the comps guide.
Sources: Caesars Rewards Earn and Redeem (caesars.com/myrewards/earn-and-redeem), read 2026-10-10, for the earn rates, tier bands, the daily bonus chart and its restrictions; Caesars Rewards Benefits Overview (caesars.com/myrewards/benefits-overview), read 2026-10-10, for the Diamond benefits. 0.46% house edge and 19.51 variance for 9/6 Jacks or Better with optimal play: Wizard of Odds (Shackleford). 8% is the reel-slot hold the comps guide uses; real holds vary by machine and denomination. The 600-an-hour pace is an estimate, not a published number, so time your own. Strategy and education only. Expected loss is an average; nothing here guarantees a result.