SiOP…It Starts With OneWritten by Josh Epstein-Stretch The Skies
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Sean Walsh, Hardline Management PO Box 13225 Scottsdale, AZ 85267 Phone: 480-570-3877 Fax: 480-664-3994 Email:siop1@hotmail.com Website: http://www.siop1.com/main.php Phoenix, Arizona--March 31, 2005-- Something very rare is blossoming in desert. Five talented musicians are coming together as one true sound. SiOP delivers a punch that catches listener off guard. Their music portrays a positive message to world. This is a collaboration of tireless artists who own patent on work ethic. SiOP breaks down constraints of one specific genre. They are intense, heavy and they bring their art to people. In a sense, their music mirrors attitudes of each member of SiOP family. This is an extremely diverse alliance of artists. SiOP offers a sense of unity that some bands find difficult to ascertain. Conceived in 1999 and enjoying a tremendous amount of regional success band understands that sky is limit. SiOP is enjoying fruits of their tireless promotion efforts by touring throughout Arizona, California and New Mexico. Regionally SiOP draws particularly well packing venues with 1500 fans. SiOP is comfortable with national spotlight performing with Papa Roach, Taproot, Breaking Benjamin, Thornley, Static-X, Lo-Pro, Soulfly, Illnino, Slaves On Dope, Dope, Motograter, Twisted Method, Kicking Harold and Gilby Clarke. SiOP has also played 5100 Nokia Core Tour Extreme Sports Festival. The band will keep a national focus by performing dates for Luckyman Productions based on West Coast.
| | Poker on TVWritten by Tom Howze
Poker on TV has been catalyst that allows millions of people to view real poker being played by today's young guns and poker legends. A day does not go by without advertising for another Texas Hold'Em TV poker scheduled event for cable or television. It is becoming basis for corporate investment in a growing industry and a motivation for players to enter numerous tournaments that offer millions of dollars. Software is being developed for hand held devices and cell phones to play poker. Deals are being made to broadcast live tournaments over Internet from land based casinos. And if that's not enough, then there are a growing number of television shows based on poker. Even charity events are bringing in money for those who need it behind affection started by televised tournament events. Plus women are coming to tables in droves, along with magazines on different versions of game like Texas Hold'Em marketed especially to women. And end is not in sight for this trend as more people learn to enjoy and watch game of poker.With an estimated 50,000,000 people in United States alone who play game, corporations began scrambling to capitalize for all money that could be made when tournament event ratings showed reflection of public's appetite. ESPN's poker audience went from 408,000 viewers in 2003 to 1,300,000 per broadcast in 2004. The 2005 World Series of Poker broadcasts will have over 2,000,000 people watching each televised episode when ESPN starts showing them in June. World Poker Tour episodes will be shown in 60 countries and if Steve Lipscomb has his way this will increase to 200 countries. And others are close behind with programs like Celebrity Poker and Poker at Plaza which are pulling in big ratings. Online poker rooms are now becoming a billion dollar industry. They provide many satellite tournaments that anyone can play in to get a chance to be a television star competing for big bucks. Even states within America such as North Dakota, Illinois and Georgia are competing to pass legislation to legalize poker over Internet for a piece of revenue pie, despite direction of federal government. Outside of U.S., England is at threshold of permitting its land-based casinos to take bets online from U.S. citizens.
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