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If multiple players bust when
going hand for hand either at the same table or different tables the money is divided equally regardless of how many chips you started with.
...
This is
at least the procedure used in all of the So. Ca. casinos
and at the WSOP.

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No, the WSOP did not use that procedure this year. (At least, not consistently.) In a WSOP tournament I played, when two players busted out at different tables at a point when there was a jump in the prize money, the player who began with the hand with the larger stack got the bigger prize.