Mattress Mack Backs the Bengals for the Super Bowl in a Record-Setting Wager

Mattress Mack has made some bighearted bets before. But his biggest to escort came Th dark on the upcoming Super Bowl.

Gallery Furniture possessor Jim McIngvale, the Samuel Houston man of affairs best known by his Mattress Mack nickname, placed a $4.5 million bet with Caesars Sportsbook on the Cincinnati Bengals to win the Feb. 13 NFL championship. As the +170 underdogs, a Bengals Super Bowl win would tight McIngvale wins $7.7 gazillion and let his pilot play back, too.

According to a button from Caesars, Mack’s wager is the largest ever so made online, and the second-biggest ever made at a effectual sportsbook. The biggest was a $4.9 billion wager inwards Super Bowl XXXVI at odds of -900.

As of Friday, the Bengals remain underdogs to the Los Angeles Rams. But the Bengals moneyline odds now are +165.

“The Joe Burrow magic is pulling fans in, especially inward Louisiana, with his college roots,” said Ken Fuchs, caput of sports at Caesars Sportsbook, inward a statement.

Bets Made inward Louisiana

McIngvale made the bets Th nighttime from a gaseous state place inwards Louisiana. That’s according to an interview he gave ESPN shortly after he placed the wager. Sports betting is illegal in Texas, and Louisiana just now launched wandering sports betting cobbler's last weekend.

Houston is 100 miles due west of the LA commonwealth line.

I had to get similar 20 $200,000 bets to take a leak it work,” he said.

Mack made another play on this year’s Super Bowl backwards inward November. At that time, he position down feather $2 1000000 on the New England Patriots through and through William Penn National Gaming’s Barstool Sportsbook and theScore Bet. Both books had the Patriots at +2300.

The Buffalo Bills pose an remainder to Mattress Mack’s $46 one thousand thousand potency gain in the number one round of drinks of the AFC playoffs.

Last year, he play $3.5 trillion on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to treat as a 3.5-point underdog inwards finally year’s Super Bowl. That wager netted him a $2.7 zillion profit.

Why Mattress Mack Bets

As is the instance with nearly all of Mack’s wagers, the bet on the Bengals serves as a parry for a promotion at his retail chain. Customers who expend $3,000 or more on either a select mattress countersink or living room article of furniture will have their big-ticket purchase for free people if the Bengals win Super Bowl LVIII.

Mack first off gained national attending for his bets when he started to utilise sports betting as an insurance insurance policy of sorts for his store’s sales. That began with his hometown Sam Houston Astros and the buzz they generated in reaching the World Series a few years ago.

By having large wagers on the Astros, it would cover up any losses Gallery Furniture would incur from having to repay customers their money for mattress sets.

When his bets turn a loss – ilk they did on Houston in the World Series this twelvemonth – he noneffervescent retains the profits from the big-ticket piece of furniture sales he makes. Mattress Mack and the sportsbooks that submit his process also acquire free people publicity come out of the arrangement.

This time, McIngvale may also read vantage of the perks from his Caesars Rewards client trueness account.

“With the millions of Caesars Rewards credits he’ll garner – win or turn a loss – he tin bask time spent on OUR mattresses at Caesars anytime he wants to kibosh by,” Fuchs said.