[boedeker]

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Most casinos will do exactly what happened to you when you busted out on the bubble. 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. It's very difficult for a casino
to keep track of chip counts at multiple tables. At the final table when two players bust than whoever has the most
chips to start with winds up with a higher place. In this
scenario the tournament director knows exactly how many chips a player has prior to the start of the hand. This is
at least the procedure used in all of the So. Ca. casinos
and at the WSOP.

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this was what i was trying to say in a less articulate fashion.