Deal with Death Slot by Hacksaw Gaming

Two Games in One Grid

Deal with Death plays on a 5x4 grid with 14 paylines, but it's really two games sharing the same space. Classic Mode works like any standard slot - card suit symbols land on the reels and pay across fixed paylines. Clubs and diamonds sit at the low end, hearts and spades at the top, each in low and high variants. SPADE_HIGH is the premium at 20x for five of a kind.

Then the JOKER lands. One symbol, and the entire grid flips. Every paying symbol transforms into a playing card, and each of the four rows becomes a Poker Hand. No paylines anymore - just poker rankings. The cards are randomly generated, not drawn from a single deck, so four aces across one row is absolutely possible.

Four Ways to Play the Joker

When the JOKER triggers Poker Mode, it transforms into one of four card types. Regular Joker simply becomes whatever card makes the best hand for its row. Hand Multiplier Joker awards x2, x3, x4, x5, or x10 to that specific row before becoming a card. Global Multiplier Joker does the same thing but applies the multiplier to every winning hand on the grid.

Triple Trouble Joker plays differently. It becomes a card first, all four rows get evaluated and paid. Then it collects every card on the grid, shuffles them, and deals out the three best possible poker hands from the entire pool. Those three hands get paid separately, in ascending order. One good Triple Trouble activation can turn a mediocre grid into three strong hands.

The Poker Hand Paytable

Royal Flush tops the board at 2,000x your bet. Straight Flush pays 500x, Four of a Kind 100x, Full House 75x, Flush 50x, Straight 25x, Three of a Kind 10x, and Two Pair 5x. These values combine with Joker multipliers - a Royal Flush on a row with a x10 Hand Multiplier hits 20,000x, the game's cap.

Deal With It - The Entry Bonus

Three scatter symbols during Classic Mode trigger 10 free spins. The JOKER lands more frequently, meaning more spins flip into Poker Mode. Extra scatters retrigger - 2 FS adds 2 spins, 3 FS adds 4. Each free spin still alternates between Classic and Poker depending on whether the JOKER appears.

Dealbreaker

Four scatters open 10 free spins with the key upgrade: the Poker Hand paytable becomes progressive. Every time a specific hand wins, its payout increases by its base amount. First Two Pair pays 5x. Second Two Pair pays 10x. Third pays 15x. This applies to every hand type independently - Royal Flush starts at 2,000x and climbs by 2,000x each time it hits. The longer the bonus runs with Poker Mode activations, the more inflated every hand becomes.

Fool's Gold - The Hidden Epic

Five scatters start the top-tier bonus with all Dealbreaker mechanics plus one guarantee: a JOKER symbol lands on every single spin. That means every free spin enters Poker Mode. Every spin builds the progressive paytable. Combined with the four Joker types rotating through, the escalation is relentless - multiplied hands feeding into an ever-growing paytable across all 10+ spins.

Death Deals the Cards

Hacksaw Gaming released Deal with Death on January 22, 2026. It's one of the more unusual entries in their catalog - a genuine hybrid where Classic Mode provides steady small wins and Poker Mode delivers the volatile swings. The skeletal dealer character and casino-noir aesthetic give it a personality distinct from typical slot themes. At 96.25% RTP with high volatility, the base game leans dry, but every JOKER landing carries the potential to rewrite the entire spin through poker mechanics that no other slot in the market currently replicates.