Related Clues:

• Advance amount
• Pay to play
• It's for openers
• At times it's upped
• ___-law
• Poker stake
• Ask for a hand?
• It's a starter
• Wager
• Put in the pot
• Start to date?
• Stud fee?
• Prepay, with 'up'
• A few chips, perhaps
• ___ meridiem