table stake

American  

noun

Poker.

1. a stake that a player places on the table at the beginning of a game that may not be changed once the deal begins.

2. table stakes, the limiting of a bet to the amount remaining in a player's table stake during a game.

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Example Sentences

Nothin' common, though; I sees him one night when he sets ca'mly into some four-handed poker, five thousand dollars table stake, an' he's sanguine an' hopeful about landin' on his feet as a Cimmaron sheep.

From Wolfville by Lewis, Alfred Henry

He had persuaded Sandy Mackintavers to gamble that sum, to play it as a table stake.

From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.