[bruce]

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.

Getting back to your hand why play pocket Sevens UTG. There's one all in player already and unless you move all in BTF someone might try a squeeze play on you. When JC bets
I have to figure that he probably has a better hand than me.
What's his calling range BTF? Either a pocket pair which almost has to be bigger than yours or Ace Big. With a big
Ace I'd expect him to reraise BTF. There are a lot more combos of pocket pairs than AK. Even if we include AQ in his calling range your behind. I doubt he would call in that spot with AQ anyway.

Bruce