But it wasn’t long before he and his advisors came to the conclusion that there had to be a better way. Jack Andrews (a pseudonym) interviewed one of Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale’s betting handlers, who explained how the Houston-based furniture mogul became perhaps the country’s best-known (and most polarizing) high roller.īack when he started giving away free mattresses if, say, the Astros won the World Series, McIngvale would take out an insurance policy to cover the potential cost of such promotions.
On a podcast back in April, the sports betting entrepreneur Capt.
