Historical clue formulations

• Pile of chips, maybe — 2025-06-29
• Upfront payments — 2025-06-19
• Payments made at a table — 2025-03-09
• Joins a pot — 2024-04-14
• Alternatives to blinds — 2024-04-11
• Pays to play — 2023-08-06
• Before: Sp. — 2023-01-01
• Pot seeds? — 2022-07-06
• Alternative to blinds — 2022-06-24
• Pays for a hand — 2022-01-24
• Buys in — 2021-08-29
• Stud fees? — 2020-06-07
• Kicks in — 2020-06-06
• Pays (up) — 2020-02-28
• Opening round at a game table — 2019-01-25
• Pays for a hand — 2018-08-14
• Gets into the game — 2018-06-23
• Preliminary payments — 2017-12-13
• Feeds the kitty — 2017-08-09
• Puts money on the table, say — 2017-07-21
• Money in the middle of a poker table — 2017-05-08
• They come before deals — 2017-02-03
• Chips in a pot — 2016-03-23
• Chips in chips — 2015-07-03
• Gets in the game — 2014-10-12
• Pays to play — 2014-10-05
• Gets the pot started — 2014-09-16
• Playing costs — 2013-04-12
• Throws in a chip — 2011-06-22
• Pennies are small ones — 2010-10-03
• Some stakes — 2010-09-26
• Gets in the game, say — 2010-09-19
• Nickel and dime in gaming? — 2010-04-22
• Gets in the game — 2010-01-03
• Deserves a deal? — 2009-11-14
• Starts the kitty — 2009-09-08
• They're placed in the center of a table — 2009-07-04
• Poker amounts — 2008-11-11
• Start-up costs, of sorts — 2008-04-15
• Starting pay? — 2007-11-04
• Gets in the game — 2007-02-13
• Dealers' requests — 2007-01-19
• Pays (up) — 2006-12-27
• Pot collection — 2006-09-21
• Chips in chips — 2006-05-10
• They're usually placed in the middle of the table — 2006-02-03
• Shows a desire to get in — 2005-09-17
• Gets in the game — 2005-03-26
• Chips in — 2005-01-13
• Pot creators — 2004-12-05