Mattress Mack Backs Hometown Houston Cougars with $1M March Madness Bet
After making million-dollar bets inwards baseball and football, “Mattress Mack” is at present venturing into March Madness.
Jim McIngvale, the Houston-based owner of Gallery Furniture, lay a $1 trillion wager on the Samuel Houston Cougars to win the NCAA Tournament with DraftKings. The Cougars have odds of +900, significance he’d acquire $10 billion and sack $9 trillion should the Cougars live the ones lancinate mastered the nets on Apr 5.
A DraftKings representative told Casino.org the seven-figure bet represents the largest college basketball wager the Boston-based sports betting and engineering companionship has ever so taken.
McIngvale flew from his aboriginal Texas, a commonwealth where sports betting is not legal, to Colorado to shoes the bet. DraftKings has a partnership with the Mardi Gras Casino in Negroid Hawk. It operates both a retail sportsbook at the cassino as easily as a mobile wagering app usable for employ statewide.
About Mattress Mack
McIngvale gained national renown inward 2017 when he placed large-sum wagers inward Las Vegas on the Samuel Houston Astros to win the World Series. The bets served as a hedging for his retail business. During the baseball game season, he offered customers who spent $3,000 or more total refunds if the Astros won the championship.
He made other similar wagers inwards 2018 and 2019 as the Astros were buzzing their way through the playoffs. With the Supreme Margaret Court overturning PASPA past then, “Mattress Mack” was capable to happen sue inwards Magnolia State and New island of Jersey as substantially for his mitigating strategy.
Just lastly month, McIngvale made headlines over again when we plunked down pat(p) nearly $3.5 1000000 on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers getting 3.5 points inward Super Bowl LV. Those Bucs ended up winning outright, allowing him to meshing more than $2.7 million.
Now, he’s horseback riding with the Cougars.
Anything canful hap in Mar Madness as we all know, but I’m x toes downwardly on Sam Houston to wreak the national claim to Texas, and willing to bet a jillion dollars with DraftKings on that outcome,” McIngvale said per the Houston Chronicle.
McIngvale also has been a successful possessor of race horses. His horses get earned $8.9 jillion in 1,249 races. The 189 wins include several graded stakes victories, 2015 Breeders’ Cup Sprint with Runhappy.
Houston Favored in Sweet 16 Matchup
Houston plays Sabbatum night inwards the Henry Sweet 16 against Syracuse. The Cougars are 6.5-point favorites against the Orange. They’re also the top seed remaining inward the middle west region. Should the second-seeded Cougars win Saturday, they’ll gambol the winner of Loyola-Chicago-Oregon State on Monday for a pick out inward the Final Four.
Houston lowest reached the Final Four inward 1984. That capped a three-year lead when Hakeem Olajuwon dominated the boards for the Cougars’ Phi Slama Jama crew.
At +900, Houston’s the current 4th selection on DraftKings’ NCAA futures board.
Overall teetotum seed Gonzaga, which has been the favourite to win the title of respect all year, remains at the top out blob with betting odds of +150 at DraftKings. Baylor, another No. 1 seed inward the tournament, is at +350. Michigan, which also earned a No. 1 seed, is available at +750.