[Small Fry]

Since this is hypothetical......Are we assuming like 9 players and everyone intially bought in for $100 and there have been several rebuys / rechipping since a player or two felted and some others lost 1/2 to 3/4 and wanted a full stack of $100. So 9 players and aprox. $1400. First you'd have to hope as many players as possible have a good idea of their chip counts or where they stand for the night, $$'s won / lost so far, and are honest about it. Other than that you can only try to recreate where everyone was. Assuming this is a friendly home game this might be possible. But why a player would topple the table in a friendly home game is beyond me.

So, assuming more of a casino atmosphere, players only know each other through the game and most if not all are there primarily to win money I would just give everyone their money back. Except the table tipper. Some (maybe all) of his money would need to go to the player that just beat him. Hopefully you have some idea of the size of the pot.

This might not be the fairest but no one is "truely" injured by it. Everyone is returned to the same state they were in before the game started.

If you cannot recreate the buy in's I don't know what I would do?

If you fear this might happen in your game I recommend not inviting that player anymore or bolting the table to the floor.