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On August 22 and 23, Poker Night in AmericaKing of New York(1990) is an excellent movie that is Abel Ferrara's most stylish film. As years go by, King of New York is a film that will be more respected and seen as an example of Ferrara's best work. It was the second best gangster film in 1990 next to Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas.
King of New York (1990) Movies, TV, Celebs, and more. Showtimes & Tickets Showtimes & Tickets Top Rated Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office In Theaters Coming Soon Coming Soon DVD & Blu-Ray Releases Release Calendar Movie News India Movie Spotlight. Aug 06, 2019 King of New York came out in 1990 and I really love it. It has a lot of shootouts and crime involving drugs too. Christopher Walken and everybody else including David Caruso, Wesley Snipes, and Larry Fishburne did an excellent job in this classic 90's crime movie. Overall definitely recommended to anybody who likes Christopher Walken.
is bringing another major streaming event to Schenectady’s Rivers Casino & Resort
. The King of the Hill poker tournament will feature four top poker superstars in a winner-take-all heads-up poker collision.The tournament is a $50,000 buy-in freezeout. The first night of action will feature two semifinal matches.
The winners of those matches will face off the following evening. The final winner gets the whole pot – a $200,000 prize for two nights of work.
The four combatants are no strangers to big games
Poker Night in America has compiled a murderer’s row of participants for this particular event. The four have $38 million dollars in tournament winnings to their names. They are:
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- Phil Hellmuth – the 1989 World Champion is one of the most recognizable faces in poker and is the all-time leader in World Series of Poker bracelets. He has over $21 million in live tournament winnings and is a member of the Poker Hall of Fame. He also won the National Heads-Up Poker Challenge in 2005.
- Doug Polk – the 28-year-old poker wizard has three WSOP bracelets and nearly $4 million in winnings. Under his alias WGCRider, he is one of the best online heads-up no-limit hold’em players and is owner and founder of UpswingPoker.com, a training site for poker players looking to make the leap.
- Daniel Cates – he is one of the top heads-up hold’em players in the world, with live tournament winnings of more than $3 million and online cash game winnings over $11 million. He also participated (or is participating) in the Durrrr Challenge against noted heads-up player Tom Dwan, and after 20,000 hands, is up $1.2 million over Dwan.
- Frank Kassela – also known as “Lights Out,” this poker pro has three WSOP bracelets and over $3 million in live tournament winnings to his name. His most recent win was in the Deuce-to-Seven Lowball Draw. None of his three bracelets are from the same type of poker – his versatility and lethality should be on full display in August.
How to watch PNIA King of the Hill?
Poker Night in America will be broadcasting the event on its Twitch channel. The broadcast will be on a thirty-minute delay, similar to the most recent WSOP broadcast so that PNIA can show the players’ hole cards throughout the matches.
Here is the schedule (all times ET):
| Date | Event | Play Begins | Broadcast Begins |
| August 22nd, 2017 | Round 1 | 3:00 p.m. | 3:30 p.m. |
| August 22nd, 2017 | Round 2 | 8:00 p.m. | 8:30 p.m. |
| August 23rd, 2017 | Final | 5:00 p.m. | 5:30 p.m. |
Poker Night in America has not released the initial pairings or further details about the format yet, but will certainly reveal more about the event in the coming days.
The following two evenings will also feature a 7-handed, invite-only cash game. The streams for that game will start each day at 3:30 p.m. ET. There is no word on the participants for that game, but they will certainly be familiar faces to poker fans.
New casino trying to make its mark
The host casino, Rivers Casino & Resort Schenectady, is hoping that this tournament will increase the property’s profile. Though Poker Night in America has broadcast from other Rivers casino properties in the past, this event will be the first time at this resort.
Indeed, this tournament is a big deal for a casino that only opened its doors in February. In fact, the hotel opened mere days ago.
Everything is very new for this casino, and there are some growing pains that the casino is trying to weather. Since Schenectady is a smaller town, media outlets report every hiccup and bump on the road the new property encounters.
For instance, the casino’s revenues are always in the news, and any down weeks appear as harbingers of doom. A fist fight inside the casino between two patrons is an Internet-searchable event and the ebb and flow of employee turnover are on display.
None of these events necessarily mean anything for a nascent business, even with millions of dollars at stake.
Rivers Casino & Resort Schenectady, for its part, is trying to do things right, and is trying to make poker a priority. Within three months of opening, the property’s poker room had hosted the inaugural Capital Region Classic.
The tournament drew 1,095 players and was a five-day event. 137 competitors split a $272,655 prize pool, and the winner, Robert Saladin, took home just over $45,000 for his efforts.
This tournament, along with the upcoming King of the Hill, might help the casino put its stamp on the region. The presence of “Poker Brat” Hellmuth raises the profile of any gambling facility, to be sure. Hopefully, the casino staff members will remember to take plenty of pictures and get good quotes from the master of berating others at the table.
At any rate, you can catch the action on Poker Night in America this coming August.
| King of New York | |
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| Directed by | Abel Ferrara |
| Produced by | Augusto Caminito Mary Kane |
| Written by | Nicholas St. John |
| Starring |
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| Music by | Joe Delia |
| Cinematography | Bojan Bazelli |
| Edited by | Anthony Redman |
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| Distributed by | Seven Arts Carolco Pictures |
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| 103 minutes | |
| Country | Italy United States[1] |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $5 million |
| Box office | $2.5 million[2] |
King of New York is a 1990 Americanneo-noircrime thriller film starring Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne, David Caruso, Wesley Snipes, Victor Argo, and Giancarlo Esposito. It was directed by independent filmmakerAbel Ferrara and written by Nicholas St. John.
Plot[edit]
Frank White, a drug lord, is riding into New York in a limousine after being released from Sing Sing. Emilio El Zapa, a Colombian drug dealer, is shot dead and the killers leave a newspaper headline announcing Frank's release. Zapa's partner, King Tito, is in a hotel room with Jimmy Jump and Test Tube, who are negotiating the purchase of cocaine. Jimmy and Test Tube shoot Tito and his bodyguards and steal the cocaine.
Later, in a suite at the Plaza Hotel, Frank is greeted by Jimmy, Test Tube, and other members of his gang, who welcome him home. Frank leaves to meet two of his lawyers, Joey Dalesio and Jennifer, for dinner. Frank expresses his desire to be mayor and asks Dalesio to set up a meeting with Mafia boss Arty Clay. He and Jennifer leave to take a ride on the subway. Confronted by muggers, Frank first brandishes his gun then gives them a wad of money, telling them to ask for him at the Plaza if they want work.
Dalesio goes to Little Italy, to set up a meeting with Clay but the Mafia don urinates on Dalesio's shoes and tells him it is a message for his boss. Frank, Jump and other members of the gang go to Clay's social club, where Frank tells Clay that he wants a percentage of all of Clay's profits. When Clay insults him, Frank shoots the Mafioso. As he leaves, Frank tells Clay's men that they can all find employment at the Plaza.
The next night, Frank is confronted by Detectives Bishop, Gilley, and Flanigan of the NYPD narcotics squad. They drive him to an empty lot where they show him the body of El Zapa in the trunk. When Frank refuses to confess, Gilley and Flanigan beat him and leave him in the lot. Frank sends Dalesio to Chinatown to make contact with Triad leader Larry Wong, who has $15 million worth of cocaine. Larry demands $3 million up front and another $500,000 after the drugs are sold. Frank counters that the two should team up, then split the profits evenly. Larry turns him down and demands that Frank decide immediately whether he wants to buy the drugs. Frank declines.
Jimmy Jump and several of Frank's lieutenants are arrested by Gilley and Flanigan, who reveal that one of Tito's bodyguards is alive and willing to testify. When Frank learns of his men's arrest, he orders his lawyers to arrange their release. They head to Chinatown, where they kill Larry and his gang and take the cocaine.
Gilley, Flanigan and other officers pose as drug dealers and bribe Dalesio into leading them to the nightclub where Frank and his men are partying. They burst in shooting, slaying several members of Frank's gang. Fleeing over the Queensboro Bridge, Frank and Jump trade shots with the police, killing all but Gilley and Flanigan. After evading their pursuers, the two men split up. Sneaking up on Flanagin, Jump shoots him in the chest, puncturing his vest. Seeing this, Gilley shoots Jump several times in the chest and stomach. Gilley tries CPR on his partner to no avail and he finishes Jump off with a gunshot to the head. A few days later at Flanigan's funeral, Frank kills Gilley.
After his men kill Dalesio, Frank goes to Bishop's apartment, telling him that he has placed a $250,000 bounty on every detective involved in the case. Holding Bishop at gunpoint, Frank explains that he killed Tito, Larry, Arty Clay and Zapa because he disapproved of their involvement in human trafficking and child prostitution.
Frank forces Bishop to handcuff himself to a chair. As Frank heads to the subway, Bishop uses a hidden gun to free himself. Bishop corners Frank in a subway car. Frank shoots Bishop, killing him but the policeman is able to fire a last shot. In a taxi in Times Square, Frank realizes that he has been hit. As police officers surround the car, Frank closes his eyes and goes limp.
Cast[edit]
- Christopher Walken as Frank White
- Laurence Fishburne as Jimmy Jump
- David Caruso as Dennis Gilley
- Victor Argo as Roy Bishop
- Janet Julian as Jennifer
- Wesley Snipes as Thomas Flanigan
- Steve Buscemi as Test Tube
- Paul Calderón as Joey Dalesio
- Giancarlo Esposito as Lance
- Theresa Randle as Raye
- Frank Adonis as Paul Calgari
- Harold Perrineau as Subway Mugger
Production[edit]
According to Ferrara, Donald Trump gave him permission to film at the Plaza Hotel at no charge on condition that Walken would pose for a photograph with Ivana Trump, who is a fan of the actor.[3]
Reception[edit]
Total Film rated King of New York four stars out of five.[4] Roger Ebert awarded two stars out of four, citing Walken's 'usual polished and somehow sinister ease', and the director's strong command of mood and style, marred by a sketchy screenplay and a fragmented and difficult-to-follow plot.[5]
Mark Caro, writing for the Chicago Tribune, gave the movie only 1/2 star. He called King of New York 'a film that sucked like mad', adding that star Christopher Walken and the movie remain 'just out of grasp'.[6]
The film holds a 71% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 24 reviews.[7]
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References[edit]
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- ^'King of New York'. British Film Institute. London. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
- ^'King of New York (1990)'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
- ^Goldstein, Patrick (28 October 1990). 'MOVIES : The Prince of Darkness : Director Abel Ferrara practices a kind of gonzo filmmaking, and his violent vision isn't a particularly popular one in Hollywood'. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
- ^'King of New York'. Total Film. 30 September 2008. Archived from the original on 8 January 2014. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
- ^Ebert, Roger. 'King Of New York Movie Review (1990)'. Roger Ebert. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
- ^'Christopher Walken'. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved Jun 5, 2015.
- ^'King of New York'. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
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