Related Clues:

• Pays in advance
• Nickel and dime in gaming?
• Poker dealers' requests
• Forks over, with "up"
• Sweetens the kitty
• Cards' costs
• Primes the poker pot
• Gets in the game, say
• Some stakes
• Pennies are small ones
• Predeal payments
• Starts the poker pot
• Payments for hands
• Gets ready for stud
• Pays for poker