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While Tom Brady celebrated his seventh Super Bowl victory in the confetti rain of Tampa Bay, not only convinced supporters of his team should have cheered.

For three people in the United States, the triumph of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers has turned into a million dollar win.

Before the game, NBC reported that some Americans were betting large sums of money on Tampa to win the NFL final - three of them at least $ 1 million.

A furniture store millionaire from Houston placed the highest stake.

Jim McIngvale, known as "Mattress Mack," put $ 3.46 million on the outsider Tampa.

The Texan is known for betting large sums of money on sports events.

At the 2019 Baseball World Series, he had wagered around eleven million dollars in total.

Among other things, he placed a $ 3.5 million bet at the time - which he lost.

Jim McIngvale, here in 2003, got rich with his furniture stores

Source: Getty Images / Matthew Stockman

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According to ESPN, McIngvale flew to Colorado Springs on Wednesday, logged into a mobile betting app at the airport and placed one of the biggest bets ever at the Super Bowl.

Sports betting is not allowed in his state of Texas.

A high risk that has now paid off.

McIngvale won $ 2.72 million.

Customers get their money back

"Mattress Mack" was convinced of his bet from the start.

“Tampa Bay is full of talent on both sides of the ball and is led by the greatest football player of all time, Tom Brady.

So I'm betting fully on the Bucs, who have survived many difficult games in the play-offs, "McIngvale is quoted in a message from the betting company.

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But not only the mattress millionaire can be happy.

Before the game, he announced that anyone who bought a mattress worth at least $ 3,000 in one of his stores before the game would get their money back.

"It's a very happy night for me," Fox-26-Houston quoted McIngvale as saying.

Two more million winners

The lowest bet, if it can be said to be low at all, of exactly one million dollars, was made in the state of Nevada.

There was a $ 1.35 million win here.

Previously, also in Nevada, a gamer had staked around 2.3 million US dollars - and has now won over two million.