Possible Clues:

• A naive beginner among players getting a game
• Preserve a top performer, mainly for this game
• In repeats, an actor returned for game
• Deuces-wild card game
• 108-card game
• Chelsea's wingers will employ a mainly malicious game
• A name adopted by players before a game
• Game with some American, a star
• Article collected by players before a card game
• Card game invented in Uruguay, popular in the 1950s