Scammers Seeking Show Staff

Matt Sowash and Andrew "Doc" Hicks were arrested for securities fraud last month, but that hasn't stopped them from looking for staff for their latest startup, Poker Television Network. On August 3 they ran the following Craigslist ad:

The Poker Television Network is producing four brand new shows that will be filmed at Binion's. I have listed each show below along with the talent needed. If you know poker and want in on a ground floor opportunity with a new television network please reply ASAP. We have productions starting in one week from today. I will be conducting interviews this Thursday at noon at Binion's.

1. Wake up with Poker
Talent: Attractive male & female co hosts
Production: Camera People, Writer/News gatherer

2. Poker Talk Live
Talent: Band, co host, Future host
Production: Writer, Production Assistant, Camera People

3. Poker School
Talent: Attractive Female Host
Production: Writer, Production Crew

4. Strip Poker
Talent: Attractive Female Host
Production: Writer, Production Crew

Sowash (now going by the name Matt Bradford) and Hicks ran a free bar poker company called Amateur Poker Tour in Denver. It was funded by illegal securities sales, it failed, and it left behind a lot of angry investors. One of them even planned to kill Sowash with rattlesnakes.

I watched a few minutes of one of their shows, Four Of A Kind (below). You really must watch it: it's hilariously bad.


Note that they even inserted some well-known companies' ads into the show, apparently in the hope that potential investors would believe they sold the ads. Expect their programming to be picked up by major cable systems... never.

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