Regardless of the ups and downs of life, a couple of issues are sure. We’re all ultimately going to die. We have now to pay taxes yearly. And every NFL season, Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale will make a large wager on who he thinks will win the Tremendous Bowl.
McIngvale owns the Houston-based Gallery Furnishings and is not any stranger to creating huge bets to assist promote his retailer. He is outdone himself this time, although, inserting a $4.5 million wager on the Cincinnati Bengals to win the Tremendous Bowl. It is the most important cellular wager ever made by means of the sportsbook.
The Return of the Mack for the Tremendous Bowl‼️@MattressMack simply wagered $4,534,000 on the #CaesarsSportsbook app in Louisiana on the Bengals (+170) to win over the Rams.
Potential win: $7,707,800
This marks the one greatest cellular wager of all-time 👀#BetLikeACaesar pic.twitter.com/pBJjtU9x49
— Caesars Sportsbook (@CaesarsSports) February 4, 2022
On-line wagering is prohibited in Texas, however not Louisiana, so McIngvale needed to drive throughout state strains to put the wager. Apps do not simply allow you to drop $4.5 million in a single fell swoop, so McIngvale positioned dozens of $20,000 bets to succeed in his whole.
If Joe Burrow and the Bengals—4.5-point underdogs to the Los Angeles Rams—win the sport, McIngvale will rating a serious payday. At +170 odds to win straight up, a Bengals victory can pay again greater than $7.7 million.
Gallery Furnishings buyers can get a pleasant deal, too. Anybody who buys $3,000 or extra price of mattress units or reclining lounge furnishings will obtain their buy without cost if the Bengals win.
Jim McIngvale together with his wife Linda (Bob Levey/Getty Photographs for UNICEF)
McIngvale had a pleasant payday betting on the underdog in final yr’s Tremendous Bowl. When the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, McIngvale collected a cool $3.46 million. The furnishings tycoon hopes his playing luck will flip round with this yr’s recreation. Since that Bucs win, he is had a sequence of dropping bets. He dropped $3.5 million on the Houston Astros, who misplaced the World Sequence to the Atlanta Braves. He additionally wager $2.7 million on Alabama to beat Georgia within the faculty soccer title recreation; the Bulldogs beat the Crimson Tide 33-18.
McIngvale tried a futures wager, too, placing $2 million on the New England Patriots to win the Tremendous Bowl again in November. On the time, the Patriots had gained 5 in a row and had simply shut out the Atlanta Falcons, 25-0. The Patriots had been 23-to-1 odds, so McIngvale would have had his largest-ever payout. Alas, the group adopted up a seven-game profitable streak by dropping three of its closing 4 regular-season video games and received trounced by the Buffalo Payments within the first spherical of the playoffs.
Altogether, McIngvale has misplaced $8.2 million since his Tremendous Bowl victory—and people are simply the bets we all know have truly occurred. There may not be a single individual rooting more durable for the Bengals come Tremendous Bowl Sunday.
