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Mattress Mack, bettor who called Astros over Phillies both get massive wins on World Series
Houston Furniture store owner Jim 'Mattress Mack ' McInvale placed a total of $10M in bets on the ASTROS to win the World Series at six different sportsbooks!Mattress Mack isn't the everyman bettor. Not many people use the sportsbooks to make seven-figure bets on their hometown team, and can hedge it all through their furniture company.
But turning $50 into $125,000 on a huge World Series prop you bet in April? That's the dream.
Both of those bettors cashed on Saturday night when the Houston Astros beat the Philadelphia Phillies to take the World Series title.
Jim McIngvale, known as "Mattress Mack," cashed in tickets worth $75 million on Astros futures. It's the largest known sports betting win in history.
There are asterisks all over it because the owner of the Gallery Furniture chain was offering customers who spent $3,000 on some sleep sets or power motion furniture at his store their money back if the Astros won the World Series. Before the Astros won the ALCS, he was offering customers double their money back. So the $75 million isn't profit — the winnings will "mostly be paid out to customers through our promotion" McIngvale told FOX 26's Matthew Seedorff after the game — it was marketing and a hedge on the furniture deal (or, the furniture deal was a hedge on the bet, whichever you prefer).
"I feel great, because a lot of our customers are going to get free mattresses," McIngvale told FOX 26.
Either way, sportsbooks including BetMGM were giving him a ton of money.
"They'll wire it to me," McIngvale told FOX 26. "That's too much money to carry."
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CONGRATULATIONS MACK !
FORTES FORTUNA JUVAT
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That's really something amazing. $75 Million win in sports.
Before this win, the biggest Sports win I had ever heard of was when someone bet about $10,000 that a Superbowl would be won by only about 5 points and in one of the worst Superbowls ever(This was right before Covid had spread really badly, and right before Shutdowns and Lockdowns, so must have been February 2020), a Superbowl Team won something like 5-3 in one of the worst Superbowls of all time, and the bettor got $100,000. -
Thanks for your input, lotto fanatic
previously in Las Vegas, Nick 'the Greek' Dandelous was the major whale in sports wagering +
Good Luck Wishes
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Edddessa_Knight with Light
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That's really something amazing. $75 Million win in sports.
Before this win, the biggest Sports win I had ever heard of was when someone bet about $10,000 that a Superbowl would be won by only about 5 points and in one of the worst Superbowls ever(This was right before Covid had spread really badly, and right before Shutdowns and Lockdowns, so must have been February 2020), a Superbowl Team won something like 5-3 in one of the worst Superbowls of all time, and the bettor got $100,000."When will we ever learn?"
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Our 'Matress Man Mack' leaves Las Vegas Thursday night to collect $40 million of his recent $72.6 million in winning wages on the Houston Astros to win the MLB World SEries
Congratulations Mack
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Eddessa_Knight
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