Houston businessman Jim McIngvale, known break as “Mattress Mack,” made story Friday when he wagered $5 jillion on the underdog Cincinnati Bengals to win Sunday’s Super Bowl. The piece of furniture stock owner’s bet with Caesars Sportsbook is the largest ever so placed with a sound US operator.
If he wins the bet, which he made live on Houston’s KPRC-TV Fri morning, Mattress Mack testament meshing $8.5 million. It’s the s time that Mack put a straighten amount on the Bengals inwards a week. Last week, he pose $4.5 gazillion on Cincinnati. Both bets had betting odds of +170, so Mack would make water a $16.2 trillion profit.
Mattress Mack placed both bets inward Louisiana, with Friday’s wager made at a receive nerve centre just crossways the state line of products in Vinton.
Besides its secretive law of proximity to the Samuel Houston area, in that respect are other connections to Louisiana. Cincinnati Bengals asterisk signal caller Joe Burrow led the LSU Tigers to a national title before decent the cover pickaxe inward the 2020 NFL Draft.
Louisiana just now became effectual virtually triplet weeks ago, so it makes it existent convenient for me,” Mack said inwards a Caesars release. “But placing this wager inwards LSU state where they love Joe [Burrow] also figured into it. Tons of LSU fans are coming come out for this furtherance where if Joe wins the Big Game, they receive the furniture free.”
Like most of Mattress Mack’s past times openhanded money wagers, the bets on the Bengals are tied to sales promotions at his Gallery Furniture stores. It’s his path of hedging on a furtherance that gives big-ticket buyers their products for free.
Drake Jumps on Rams Bandwagon
While Mattress Mack is firmly ensconced as a member of WhoDey Nation, he’s non the only high-profile mortal making a wager on the Super Bowl.
On Thursday, Canadian rapper and noted sports partisan Sir Francis Drake set his money on the Los Angeles Rams. The “Hotline Bling” hitmaker posted his bets on his Instagram account.
Using Stake, a cryptocurrency gaming site, Francis Drake wager CAD 600,000 worth of Bitcoin on the Rams moneyline, CAD 500,000 of Bitcoin on Odell Beckham Jr. getting to a greater extent than 62.5 receiving yards, and CAD 500,000 of Bitcoin on Beckham scoring at to the lowest degree I touchdown during the game. He stands to meshwork CAD 306,000 if the Rams win, CAD 405,000 if Beckham goes o'er the yardage mark, and CAD 575,000 if Beckham scores a TD.
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Current Super Bowl Odds
The Rams are currently a four-point favorite at most sportsbooks, header into the weekend.
On the moneyline, the Rams betting odds motley from -185 at Caesars to -200 at BetMGM and PointsBet. The Bengals straight-up odds vary from +160 at DraftKings and Caesars (the betting odds dropped after Mattress Mack’s bet) to +170 at Bet365 and FOX Bet.
The sum up is posing at 48.5 points.
Over at Caesars, the coin toss remains the to the highest degree popular prop bet. Based on fine sales and handle, bettors like it to earth on tails. The sportsbook offers it as an even-money bet.