Poker hand starters
The crossword clue "Poker hand starters" is answered by ANTES, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ANTES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ANTES answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ANTES
Every other clue in this collection answered by ANTES, most used first.
- Pays to play - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
- Poker payments - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
- Chips in - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
- Feeds the kitty - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Starts the pot - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Poker stakes - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
- Chips in chips - used 20 times, most recently in 2021
- Stakes - used 20 times, most recently in 2002
- Pays (up) - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Stud fees? - used 18 times, most recently in 2022
- Pays to play poker - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Pot starters - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
- Poker pot starters - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Ponies up - used 16 times, most recently in 2022
- Hand costs - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Starts a pot - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Pays for a hand - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Chips in a chip - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
- Poker-pot fees - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Starts a poker pot - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Gets in the game - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Feeds the pot - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Poker buy-ins - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Poker entry fees - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Begins the betting - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Opening bets - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Pot builders - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Starting stakes - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Stud stakes - used 7 times, most recently in 2002
- Initial poker payments - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Poker hand fees - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Starts the poker pot - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Right-hand page - RECTO, used 143 times
- Poker ploy - RAISE, used 65 times
- Left-hand page - VERSO, used 54 times
- Lends a hand - HELPS, used 52 times
- Lent a hand - AIDED, used 50 times
- Starters - ATEAM, used 44 times
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