The rest area offers a convenient place to gamble because online sports betting has not been legalized in Texas, pushing ...

Houston furniture magnate and high stakes gambler Jim "Mattress Mack" McIngvale has taken his lumps over the years in sports betting. He is widely known to bet enormous sums of money on his favorite ...

It’s been a while since we last heard about one of those astoundingly large sports bets by Houston-area furniture store magnate Jim McIngvale, better known as Mattress Mack, but there’s a ...

Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs have been Mattress Mack’s nemesis in the playoffs. Houston furniture ...

Texans looking to place wagers on sporting events make trips to Louisiana to make in person bets at a rest stop located just across the Teas border.

Houston furniture store owner Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale lost $3 million in ... $1.5 million to win the College Football Playoff national championship and $500,000 to win the SEC title ...

Before sports gambling was legalized in Louisiana, Jim McIngvale usually flew to Las ... in December to place a $2 million wager on Texas football winning the national championship.

But I must admit, I'm also a little bit … sad. You may wonder, "Jim, are you sad because your team didn't make it?" No, it's not that. Is it because the Lions and the Bills couldn't complete ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Jim Becker, a former Associated Press journalist, holds a book showing a 1945 photo of him as a Stars and ...