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                                                                     EXHIBIT 4.4

                            CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
                                     TO THE
                           CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION
                     SETTING FORTH THE PREFERENCES, RIGHTS
                  AND LIMITATIONS OF SERIES B PREFERRED STOCK
                          AND SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK
                        OF ALPHA HOSPITALITY CORPORATION

            ALPHA  HOSPITALITY  CORPORATION  (the  "Corporation"),   a  Delaware
corporation,  certifies  that,  pursuant to the  authority  contained in Article
FOURTH  of  its  Certificate  of  Incorporation,  and  in  accordance  with  the
provisions  of Section  151 of the  General  Corporation  Law (the "GCL") of the
State of Delaware,  its Board of Directors has  adopted the following  preambles
and resolutions,  which the stockholders have approved at a duly called and held
meeting, upon notice in accordance with Section 222 of the GCL, at which meeting
the  necessary  number of votes as required by statute were cast in favor of the
amendment,  amending and clarifying the  preferences,  rights and limitations of
the Corporation's existing Series C Preferred Stock, originally established by a
Certificate of Designation Setting Forth the Preferences, Rights and Limitations
of Series B Preferred  Stock and Series C Preferred  Stock of Alpha  Hospitality
Corporation  (the  "Certificate  of  Designation"),  filed with the Secretary of
State on July 24, 1998.

            WHEREAS, the Corporation desires to have the option to pay dividends
for the Series C Preferred  Stock with  sharers of Common Stock in lieu of cash;
and

            WHEREAS,   the  Corporation   deems  it  appropriate  to  amend  the
preferences  and rights of the Series C  Preferred  Stock to include a provision
whereby the  Corporation  can issue  shares of Common  Stock in lieu of the cash
dividend accrued on its Series C Preferred Stock and

            NOW THEREFORE, it is hereby

            RESOLVED,  that Part B of the  Certificate of Designation be amended
to include a new Section 2.4, setting forth the terms and conditions for payment
of dividends of Series C Preferred  Stock in shares of Common  Stock,  effective
upon the filing of an  appropriate  amendment to the  Certificate of Designation
with the  Secretary  of State,  to read as set  forth  below,  and the  original
Section 2.4 be renumbered to Section 2.5:

            2.4 PAYMENT OF DIVIDEND IN SHARES OF COMMON  STOCK.  Notwithstanding
            the  provisions of Section 2.3 hereof,  commencing in the year 2002,
            any  dividend  payment  that is not  made by the  Corporation  on or
            before  January 30 of the calendar year  following the calendar year
            for  which  such  dividend   accrued  may,  at  the  option  of  the
            Corporation's  Board of Directors,  be payable in the form of shares
            of Common Stock,  in such number of shares as shall be determined by
            dividing  (A) the  product of (x) the amount of the unpaid  dividend
            multiplied  by (y) 1.3 by (B) the Fair  Market  Value of the  Common
            Stock.  For this  purpose,  "Fair  Market  Value"  shall mean,  with
            respect to the Common Stock, the average of the daily closing prices
            for  the  Common  Stock  of the  Corporation  for  the  twenty  (20)
            consecutive  trading days preceding the applicable  January 30 date,
            with the closing price for each day being the closing price reported
            on the principal  securities exchange upon which the Common Stock of
            the  Corporation  is  traded  or, if it is not so  traded,  then the
            average  of the  closing  bid and asked  prices as  reported  by the
            National  Association  of  Securities  Dealers  Automated  Quotation
            System or, if not quoted thereon,  in the interdealer  market on the
            "Pink  Sheets"  of the  National  Quotation  Bureau  (excluding  the
            highest  and lowest bids on each day that there are four (4) or more
            market makers).

            IN WITNESS WHEREOF,  ALPHA  HOSPITALITY  CORPORATION has caused this
Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Designation to be executed by its
President and attested to by its Secretay this 13th day of June, 2001.

                                             ALPHA HOSPITALITY CORPORATION

                                             /s/ Stanley S. Tollman
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                                             Stanley S. Tollman, Chairman and
                                             President

ATTEST:

/s/ Thomas W. Aro
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 Thomas W. Aro, Secretarysec document

                                                                     EXHIBIT 4.5

                    CERTIFICATE OF THE DESIGNATIONS, POWERS,
                             PREFERENCES AND RIGHTS
                                     OF THE
                            SERIES E PREFERRED STOCK
                           ($.01 PAR VALUE PER SHARE)

                                       OF

                          ALPHA HOSPITALITY CORPORATION
                             A DELAWARE CORPORATION

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                         PURSUANT TO SECTION 151 OF THE
                GENERAL CORPORATION LAW OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE

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            ALPHA HOSPITALITY CORPORATION,  a corporation organized and existing
under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the "Corporation"),

            DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:

            FIRST:  That,  pursuant  to  authority  conferred  upon the Board of
Directors of the Corporation  (the "Board") by the Certificate of  Incorporation
of said  Corporation,  and  pursuant  to the  provisions  of Section  151 of the
Delaware General Corporation Law, there hereby is created,  out of the 5,000,000
shares of Preferred Stock of the Corporation authorized in Article FOURTH of the
Certificate of Incorporation (the "Preferred  Stock"), a series of the Preferred
stock consisting of 1,730,697 shares, $.01 par value per share, to be designated
"Series  E  Preferred  Stock,"  and to that end the Board  adopted a  resolution
providing  for  the  designations,  powers,  preferences  and  rights,  and  the
qualifications,  limitations and restrictions,  of the Series E Preferred Stock,
which resolution is as follows:

                        RESOLVED,   that   the   Certificate   of  the
            Designations, Powers, Preferences and Rights of the Series
            E Preferred Stock ("Certificate of Designation") be and is
            hereby  authorized  and  approved,  which  Certificate  of
            Designation shall be filed with the Delaware  Secretary of
            State in the form as follows:

            1.  DESIGNATIONS  AND  AMOUNT.  One  Million  Seven  Hundred  Thirty
Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Seven  (1,730,697)  shares of the Preferred Stock of
the Corporation, $.01 par value per share, shall constitute a class of Preferred
Stock designated as "Series E Preferred Stock" (the "Series E Preferred Stock").

            2. DIVIDENDS.

               (a) The  holders of shares of Series E  Preferred  Stock shall be
entitled to  receive,  when and as  declared  by the Board of  Directors  of the
Corporation (the "Board") out of assets of the Corporation legally available for
payment,  a cash dividend at the rate of 8% of the  Liquidation  Value (or $.80)
per annum per share of Series E  Preferred  Stock  (the  "Preferred  Dividend"),
payable only as provided in Section 2(b) hereof.  The Preferred  Dividend  shall
accrue and shall be cumulative  from the date of initial  issuance of such share
of Series E Preferred  Stock.  The amount of the  Preferred  Dividend that shall
accrue for the initial  dividend  period and for any period  shorter than a full
dividend  period  shall be  computed  on the basis of a  360-day  year of twelve
30-day months.

               (b) The  Preferred  Dividend  shall be  payable  (whether  or not
declared  by the  Board)  upon  the  effective  date  of the  earliest  of a (i)
redemption of the Series E Preferred  Stock in accordance  with Section 6 hereof
or (ii) Liquidation (as hereinafter defined).

            3.  RIGHTS ON  LIQUIDATION,  DISSOLUTION  OR WINDING UP, ETC. In the
event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation,  dissolution or winding up of
the Corporation  (each, a "Liquidation"),  no distribution shall all be made (1)
to the holders of shares of stock ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon
liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the holders of the Series E Preferred
Stock unless,  prior  thereto,  the holders of such shares of Series E Preferred
Stock shall have received $10.00 per share (the  "Liquidation  Value"),  plus an
amount  equal to all accrued and unpaid  dividends  and  distributions  thereon,
whether or not  declared,  to the date of such  payment.  For  purposes  of this
Certificate  of  Designation,  each of (1) the  sale,  conveyance,  exchange  or
transfer  of  all  or  substantially  all  of the  property  and  assets  of the
Corporation or (2) the  consolidation  or merger of the Corporation with or into
any other corporation,  in which the stockholders of the Corporation immediately
prior to such  event do not own a  majority  of the  outstanding  shares  of the
surviving  corporation  shall be  deemed  to be a  liquidation,  dissolution  or
winding up of the Corporation.

            4. RANK.  The Series E Preferred  Stock shall rank,  with respect to
the payment of dividends and the distribution of assets, senior to all series of
any other class of the Corporation's Preferred Stock.

            5. VOTING RIGHTS.  The holders of Series E Preferred Stock shall not
be entitled to vote on any matter except as required by law.

            6.  REDEMPTION.  The  Corporation,  at the option of the Board,  may
redeem  the  whole  or any  part of the  Series  E  Preferred  Stock at any time
outstanding, at any time or from time to time, by paying the redemption price of
$10.00 per share, plus accrued dividends, in cash or, in its sole discretion, by
delivery of a Note in the form  attached  hereto as Exhibit A, for each share of
Series E Preferred Stock so to be redeemed plus dividends accrued thereon at the

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date fixed for  redemption.  In the case of the redemption of only a part of the
Series E Preferred Stock at the time  outstanding,  the Corporation shall select
by lot or in such  other  manner  as the Board may  determine  the  shares to be
redeemed.  The  Board  shall  have  full  power and  authority,  subject  to the
limitations and provisions  contained  herein,  to prescribe the manner in which
and the terms and  conditions  upon which the Series E Preferred  Stock shall be
redeemed  from time to time.  If the Board has  elected to redeem  such Series E
Preferred  Stock by paying cash and on or before the date fixed by the Board for
redemption the funds necessary for such redemption  shall have been set apart so
as to be and continue to be available therefor,  then,  notwithstanding that any
certificates for the shares of Series E Preferred Stock so called for redemption
shall not have been surrendered for cancellation, the shares represented thereby
shall no longer be deemed  outstanding,  the right to receive  dividends thereon
shall cease to accrue from and after the date of  redemption  so fixed,  and all
rights with  respect to such  shares of Series E  Preferred  Stock so called for
redemption shall immediately on such redemption date cease and terminate, except
only the right of the holders thereof to receive the redemption  price therefor,
but  without  interest.  None of the Series E  Preferred  Stock  acquired by the
Corporation  by  redemption  or  otherwise  shall be reissued or disposed of but
shall from time to time be retired in the manner provided by law.

            7. NO PRE-EMPTIVE  RIGHTS. No holder of shares of Series E Preferred
Stock will  possess  any  preemptive  rights to  subscribe  for or  acquire  any
unissued  shares of capital stock of the  Corporation  (whether now or hereafter
authorized)  or securities  of the  Corporation  convertible  into or carrying a
right to subscribe to or acquire shares of capital stock of the Corporation.

            IN WITNESS WHEREOF,  Alpha  Hospitality  Corporation has caused this
Certificate of Designation to be executed this 10th day of December, 2002.

                                  ALPHA HOSPITALITY CORPORATION

                                  By: /s/ Scott Kaniewski
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                                      Name:  Scott Kaniewski
                                      Title: CFO

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