Deal with Death Slot by Hacksaw Gaming

One symbol changes everything. The JOKER lands on the grid and every paying symbol transforms into a playing card - clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades all become actual poker hands across four rows. Classic Mode runs on 14 paylines with card suit symbols ranked low to high (SPADE_HIGH pays 20x for five of a kind), and it plays like any standard slot until that JOKER appears. Then the paylines disappear. Each row gets evaluated as a five-card poker hand instead, with cards randomly generated rather than dealt from a single deck. Four aces in one row? Possible.

The JOKER itself comes in four variants. Regular Joker fills in as whatever card completes the strongest hand for its row. Hand Multiplier Joker attaches x2 through x10 to a single row before converting. Global Multiplier Joker does the same but spreads that multiplier across every winning hand on the grid - a Royal Flush (2,000x) under a x10 Global Multiplier hits the 20,000x cap in one shot. Triple Trouble is the strangest of the four: it becomes a card, all four rows pay out, and then it collects every card on the grid, shuffles the pool, and rebuilds three optimized hands from the full set. Three separate payouts from one spin's worth of cards.

Three bonus tiers split by scatter count. Three scatters open 10 free spins where the JOKER drops more often. Four scatters unlock Dealbreaker, which adds a progressive paytable - every time a specific poker hand wins, its payout increases by its own base value. First Two Pair pays 5x, second pays 10x, third 15x. Royal Flush starts at 2,000x and climbs by 2,000x each hit. Five scatters trigger Fool's Gold, which runs the same progressive system but guarantees a JOKER on every single spin. Every free spin enters Poker Mode, every Poker Mode activation inflates the paytable further, and the four Joker types keep rotating through. The skeletal dealer presiding over this casino-noir setup fits - the whole game is built around that one card flip from slot reels to poker table.