Poker Murder Plot Update

The former owner of the Amateur Poker Tour allegedly owed an investor $60k and found himself the target of a bizarre murder plot by the investor in a desperate bid to get the money. Matt Sowash and his Amateur Poker Tour were under investigation by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, and it was to this body Sowash turned with reports of death threats. The man doing the threatening, Christopher Steelman, recently had the charges against him reduced, with conspiracy to commit murder and kidnapping charges dropped. Steelman will be charged with felony extortion and will have an arraignment at the end of October.