Put (up) in the poker pot

noun

1. A poker stake usually put up before the deal to build the pot

   "The dealer called for a dollar ante."

2. Cost, price

   "These improvements would raise the ante."

3. Risk, stakes

   "The new law ups the ante on tax cheats."

4. A level (as of achievement or intensity) regarded especially as a goal or standard

   "a film that ups the ante on special effects"

verb

1. To put up (an ante)
2. Pay up

prefix

1. Prior earlier

   "antedate"

2. Anterior forward

   "anteroom"

3. Prior to earlier than

   "antediluvian"

adjective

1. Being before noon

adjective

1. Relating to or being wagers on a horse race made especially before the day of the race

adjective

1. Small-time, two-bit

noun

1. Poker played for very low stakes

noun

1. The state of affairs that existed previously

Latin phrase

1. May they perish who have uttered ours (our ideas) before us

Latin phrase

1. The state existing before the war