Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/12 - A Weird Game

by : $12$

 * A Weird Game
 * Seven men engaged in play.
 * Whenever a player won a game he doubled the money of each of the other players.
 * That is, he gave each player just as much money as each had in his pocket.
 * They played $7$ games and, strange to say, each won a game in turn in the order of their names,
 * which began with the letters $\text A$, $\text B$, $\text C$, $\text D$, $\text E$, $\text F$, and $\text G$.
 * When they had finished it was found that each man had exactly $2$ shillings and $8$ pence in his pocket.


 * How much had each man had in his pocket before play?