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Matt Bonesteel
Oct. 2, 2019 at 8:52 a.m. CDT
For much of this baseball season, Gallery Furniture stores in Houston have been running a promotion promising to refund mattress purchases of $3,000 or more if the Astros win the World Series. It’s a pretty gutsy move on the part of Gallery Furniture owner Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale: Houston won a franchise-record 107 games during the regular season, the most in all of baseball, and feature an absolutely loaded roster, including infielder Alex Bregman (in the running for MVP), pitchers Justin Verlander and Gerrit Cole (who easily could go 1-2 in the AL Cy Young voting), and designated hitter Yordan Alvarez (who seems likely to win AL rookie of the year honors). Should the Astros win the World Series, McIngvale will be on the hook for more than $15 million worth of refunds, he told the Action Network’s Darren Rovell.
To help mitigate that potential hit, McIngvale went about trying to find a sportsbook that would take a large wager on the Astros to win the World Series, and on Monday he found one: the DraftKings sportsbook at Scarlet Pearl casino in Biloxi, Miss., which took his $3.5 million bet on the Astros to win it all at +220 odds. If Houston takes home the World Series title for the second time in three seasons, McIngvale would win $7.7 million.
McIngvale flew to Mississippi on Tuesday to pose with his ticket and a briefcase full of cash (he actually wired the $3.5 million on Monday):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...-world-series/
Matt Bonesteel
Oct. 2, 2019 at 8:52 a.m. CDT
For much of this baseball season, Gallery Furniture stores in Houston have been running a promotion promising to refund mattress purchases of $3,000 or more if the Astros win the World Series. It’s a pretty gutsy move on the part of Gallery Furniture owner Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale: Houston won a franchise-record 107 games during the regular season, the most in all of baseball, and feature an absolutely loaded roster, including infielder Alex Bregman (in the running for MVP), pitchers Justin Verlander and Gerrit Cole (who easily could go 1-2 in the AL Cy Young voting), and designated hitter Yordan Alvarez (who seems likely to win AL rookie of the year honors). Should the Astros win the World Series, McIngvale will be on the hook for more than $15 million worth of refunds, he told the Action Network’s Darren Rovell.
To help mitigate that potential hit, McIngvale went about trying to find a sportsbook that would take a large wager on the Astros to win the World Series, and on Monday he found one: the DraftKings sportsbook at Scarlet Pearl casino in Biloxi, Miss., which took his $3.5 million bet on the Astros to win it all at +220 odds. If Houston takes home the World Series title for the second time in three seasons, McIngvale would win $7.7 million.
McIngvale flew to Mississippi on Tuesday to pose with his ticket and a briefcase full of cash (he actually wired the $3.5 million on Monday):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...-world-series/