The de-facto option for bettors not happy with the individual offerings of 3-year-olds: “All Other 3-Year-Olds,†a.k.a. the Field, closed as the 4/1 favorite in the Kentucky Derby Future Wager (KDFW) Pool 4. With eight weeks to go before the May 7 Kentucky Derby, that fourth of five pools sponsored […]
Mattress Mack returns with another seven-figure bet, but this time he targeted the NFL playoffs. Jim McIngvale, a Houston-based furniture store salesman otherwise known as Mattress Mack, bet $1.1 million to win $1 million on the Cincinnati Bengals against the Tennessee Titans in the AFC Divisional round. Mattress Mack backed […]
When Jim “Mattress Mack†McIngvale was looking for a site on which to drop a $2.4 million wager on Essential Quality to win the Kentucky Derby, he remembered what he was at heart. McIngvale has been called many things over the years. An entrepreneur. A furniture magnate. A media darling, […]
In his latest sports-bet-meets-furniture-promotion escapade, Jim “Mattress Mack†McIngvale is sticking his neck out with presumptive Kentucky Derby favorite Essential Quality. The Houston furniture magnate plans to wager at least $2 million on Essential Quality to win Saturday’s Kentucky Derby. That wager is believed to be the largest bet ever […]
You know Jim “Mattress Mack†McIngvale as the Moby Dick of sports bettors. But horse racing fans better recognize the Houston furniture magnate/betting whale as the owner of Eclipse Award-winning sprinter-turned-stallion Runhappy. And one of Runhappy’s offspring, Joyful Cadence, runs for her sire’s second stakes progeny victory in Saturday’s Black-Type […]
Jim McIngvale, the Houston furniture store magnate known as “Mattress Mack,” wants to bet $1 million on the Tennessee Titans to defeat the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship. Mattress Mack is seeking to place a cool million on the Titans moneyline at +300. If the Titans win outright […]
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