Subject: Herb Beck

• Another Deal

  September 26, 2007

• Snake Murder Conspirators Cut Deals

  November 20, 2007

• Playing Their Hand

  Two would-be hit men strike a deal in Jeffco.

  November 29, 2007

• Denver Poker Tour Deals a Winning Hand

  The Amateur Poker Tour may have gone bust, but there is still free poker in Denver.

  September 27, 2007

• Free Poker Tour Is a Dead Man's Hand

  When these Amateur Poker Tour investors realized they'd been bluffed, they tried their hand at murder.

  September 27, 2007

• Murder-by-snake case takes on new twist as the victim, Matt Sowash, is arrested

   Poker tour entrepreneurs Matt Sowash and Andrew "Doc" Hicks were arrested this week and charged with securities fraud. Investigators have been working on the case for two years, ever since two other men hatched a plot to kill Sowash using rattlesnakes. In that case, detailed in the 2007 Westword feature, "Free Poker Tour Is a Dead Man's Hand," Herb Beck, an investor in a previous poker tour owned by Sowash, the Amateur Poker Tour, and Christopher Steelman were first charged with conspirac

  July 23, 2009

• Almost getting eaten by rattlesnakes didn't stop Matt Sowash from running poker scams

   It appears that even deadly snakes couldn't keep Matt Sowash and business partner Andrew Hicks away from poker. As Westword reported Thursday, the two men were arrested this week and accused of five counts of felony securities fraud. A June CBI affidavit used to obtain warrants for the arrests of both men says Sowash and Hicks had been illegally attempting to solicit investors for a poker tour that would hold Texas Hold 'em tournaments in bars. Sowash and Hicks previously ran a similar

  July 24, 2009