Three Card Poker Slot by Light & Wonder

Three player positions stacked vertically on a magenta felt, each with its own ANTE, Pair Plus, 6 Card Bonus and Progressive spot. You can play all three against a single dealer hand or play them separately, with the deck reshuffling between rounds rather than between hands. That is the multi-hand variant in one sentence.

The ANTE drives the base game. Place it, see your three cards, then either fold or match it with a PLAY bet equal to the ANTE. Dealer qualifies on Queen High or better. If they fail to qualify, the ANTE pays 1:1 and the PLAY pushes back to you regardless of what you are holding, which is the rule that pulls borderline hands like Q-6-4 into play instead of fold. The ANTE Bonus pays on top regardless of the showdown: 5:1 for Mini Royal or Straight Flush, 4:1 for Three of a Kind, 1:1 for a Straight. You collect those even when the dealer beats you.

Pair Plus and 6 Card Bonus settle independently and resolve whether you fold or play. Pair Plus tops out at 200:1 for a Mini Royal (Ace, King, Queen of one suit), drops to 40:1 for a Straight Flush, and pays a friendly 1:1 on any pair so the side hits more often than its return suggests. The 6 Card Bonus builds a five-card hand out of your three plus the dealer three: Royal Flush pays 1000:1, Straight Flush 200:1, down to Three of a Kind at 5:1. Higher house edge, but the Royal is the biggest fixed payout in the game outside the progressive tier.

The Progressive is two games stacked. A $1 entry seeds at $1,000, a $10 entry seeds at $10,000, and you pick one tier per round before the deal. Both pay the same list: Ace-King-Queen of Spades takes 100% of the meter, the same hand in any other suit pays a flat 500x, Straight Flush 70x, Three of a Kind 60x, Straight 6x. Spades is the only hand that clears the pool, which is why the betting layout circles that exact combination.

The table itself is a Vegas pit shrunk to fit a screen. Pink-red felt, gold serif logo across the dealer rail, Dealer qualifies with Queen or higher stamped underneath as a permanent reminder, coloured chip stacks lined up along the bottom edge.