If you know anything about Jim McIgnvale aka Mattress Mack, it’s that he sells mattresses. But if you know two things about him, it’s that he sells mattresses and uses the earnings from those sales to place astronomical amounts of money on sports bets.
Sometimes it works in his favor — like his 2020 bet on the Super Bowl — but mostly he just loses a lot. That includes the $3.25 million he bet on the Houston Astros to win last year’s World Series, which would’ve returned $35.6 million.
