Colby Covington may not have known when to fold ’em in the end, but he still seemed to mostly play his cards right.
Covington, a former UFC interim welterweight champion and multi-time title challenger, finished a major South Florida poker tournament in seventh place Monday and cashed for nearly $50,000 in prize money on a $400 buy-in.
Covington made the final table of the Seminole Hard Rock Casino’s $400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em event in Hollywood, Fla. He went all in with an Ace of hearts and 8 of diamonds against Tommy Morgado, who had an A-K of diamonds when they turned their cards over. Neither player got any help from the cards on the table, so Morgado’s King beat Covington’s 8 to eliminate him, according to Seminole Hard Rock‘s coverage of the event (H/T to Fox Sports 640-AM’s Andy Slater via Twitter).
