Related Clues:

• Stake and it is quite slow
• Stake for backing a mount
• Player's stake in poker - a ten? (anag)
• Stake - before
• Hoofed mammal
• Preceding birth
• Pre-deal stake
• Stake put up before the deal
• Initial stake in a poker game
• A chip for a kitty
• Cause a pot to have a chip in it?
• Kick off a poker hand
• First chip, perhaps
• Entry fee for a poker hand
• Before, to Brutus