Get twice as rich or die trying in GTA Online's Prison Break Heist weekend event

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The professional criminal lifestyle doesn't allow for much resting on laurels. If you spent all your GTA Online cash on fast cars and golden knuckle dusters from the Ill-Gotten Gains updates, you'd better get back to work while The Prison Break Heist is twice as rewarding.

From now through Sunday, the second heist in the five-part series will be worth twice as much GTA$ and RP, giving players extra cash and levels for their efforts. Or if you're still not a high enough level to start pulling Heists of your own (that's level 12, by the way), you'll also find a bunch of open-world activities pay out twice as much RP this weekend. Here's the full list from Rockstar:

Don't forget: if you want to start hosting your own Heist missions (and start getting the biggest slice of the payouts) you'll need a high-end apartment to stage them from. Thankfully, several upscale residences are going for 25 percent off all throughout the weekend event:

Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.