table stake

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.

Example Sentences

"The world's major tech companies are realizing that having a really popular mobile messenger has simply become table stake for competing in this era of computing," said Ted Livingston, CEO of Kik Messenger, a WhatsApp rival.

From Reuters

Relevance is a table stake across the entire lifecycle of a seller-buyer relationship, not just when you’re making the sale or answering a customer service question.

From Forbes

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

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg