UFC star Colby Covington performed well during a large poker tournament down in Florida over the weekend.
While he certainly isn’t always going to win over mixed martial arts fans, it does appear as if Colby Covington is slowly but surely but surely getting himself over with critics who once didn’t have the time of day for him. The win over Jorge Masvidal would’ve helped that, as would the fact that Masvidal opted to sucker punch ‘Chaos’ down in Miami despite Colby being the one to pick up the W.
As he continues to recover from the assault, the former interim champion opted to head to a poker tournament and test himself against some of the best players on the planet.
“UFC star Colby Covington makes final table of record-setting poker tournament at @HardRockHolly in Florida, beating 7,696 other entrants. He gets $48,298 of the $2.5M prize pool for finishing 7th.”
The fact that Colby was able to outlast so many other competitors is impressive, and could serve as an indication of what he plans on doing when he eventually leaves MMA. You’d have to think he doesn’t want to escape the spotlight entirely, but living a more sheltered life – at least somewhat – could be beneficial.
In terms of when he’s going to return to the Octagon, there are still a whole lot of questions to be asked about that after he reportedly took legal action against ‘Gamebred’.
Either way, Colby is going to have a big dance partner as and when he wants to come back.
That him in the raincoat lol
Good for him btw. Hard as hell to pull off.
Colby is a numbers guy
Thats pretty impressive IMHO.
All this man does is win
Let’s hear it haters
Unless your name is Kamaru then you don’t deserve to talk down on Colby
What a legend
It takes an INSANE amount of luck to navigate a field that large. That said, few people these days could make a run that deep without playing somewhat sound. Interested in knowing how long Colby’s been playing and what his other results have been.
Colby living his best life 
congrats to colby on finally finding something he’s good at
Very cool. That’s a lot of time & work at the table…
just sent this info to jorge’s lawyers as proof that colby has no brain damage
He might’ve won the tournament if not for Street Judas.
I checked Colby in the Hendon Mob database. Dude has several recorded cashes going back 10+ years. Most are local, small buy - in tournaments, but he’s been doing it a while and having success.