[TheBronzer]

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Does anybody know who Gus's backer was? I could swear I heard the players saying someting like "yeah, if anybody was going to put up $500k, he's the one that would do it." They might have just been talking about Gus, but it seemed like they were talking about some unnamed backer.

Gabe explicitly talked about the props today for the first time. I wish he had said a little more about it. It would be cool to know at least what size bets were being made on props. Maybe that would just confuse the average viewer though.

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I actually think they said, "Oh, of course, and how could we not figure out who put the 400 on the table" or something like that, because they didn't know whose money it was. They weren't talking about his backer. The 400k was on the table but they did not know who it belonged to. If you see the 400k is just sitting there and then Gus just kind of strolls in and everyone is surprised. It seemed like he called ahead and had the casino have the 400k ready for him to be in play when he got there. I also remember from DN's blog that he was totally shocked when Gus walked into the room because he didn't think Gus was in town (he was probably mad later on when he got pwned).

So, I think the 400k was put on the table by an employee and the players sat for some time trying to figure out whose money it was until Gus finally got there. They probably didn't think Gus because nobody knew he was in town.

(Right when I heard that comment I took a minute to try and figure out what was going on and this is what I came up with.)

However, that doesn't mean he doesn't have a backer but I doubt it. Plus, if he did, why wouldn't the backer just give him 100k like the rest of the people instead of 400.