TOP 10 POKER QUADS HANDS OF THE DECADE!Help us to 200K Subscribers - Turn on the '🔔' to get notifications for new uploads!If you are r. MOLLY’S GAME is based on the true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game for a decade before.
Molly Bloom shot to public attention when it emerged she had been presiding over a series of secret high-stakes poker games.
Screenwriter Benjamin Sorkin adapted the screenplay from a book written by the woman herself. But, how did Bloom become the “Poker Princess”? Is Molly Bloom married? And, what is Molly doing now?
Skiing Career
During college, she was pushing to become an Olympic skier. She declared for ESPN:
”Because of athletics, I got real comfortable with risk at a young age. I made choices that I may not have made otherwise.”
Molly went on to say:
”In sports, especially skiing, you have to be comfortable with risk. You have to have a relationship with fear, and it can’t dominate the decision-making process.”
But, Molly walked away from the sport in 2002.
In 2003, she found a job as a waitress in a club in LA. It was in this context that Bloom was introduced to the world of poker.
After absorbing the rules for herself, Bloom started to organize poker games herself, asking a $10,000 admission fee.
Behind very private doors, Hollywood elite (like Tobey Maguire, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Ben Affleck), pro athletes, financiers, and billionaires turned up at the underground poker games Molly organized.
At some point, the stakes were so high that she witnessed a man lose $100 million in one night. She said in an interview:
”I saw someone lose $100 million in one night.”
Bloom also said:
”My regular game in NYC was a $250,000 buy-in, no limit. So people were burning through that, a lot of times in the first 30 minutes.”
On April 16, 2013, Molly was arrested as part of a money-laundering operation using illegal gambling.
In May 2014, Bloom was sentenced to 200 hours of community service, a $200,000 fine, and one year of probation.
About one month later, she released a book, named – ”Molly’s Game: The True Story of the 26-Year-Old Woman Behind the Most Exclusive, High-Stakes Underground Poker Game in the World.”
After publishing her book, she convinced screenwriter Aaron Sorkin to write a screenplay for a film adaptation of her book.
The film “Molly’s Game” was released in 2017. Some of the stars are Chris O’Dowd, Brian d’Arcy James, Michael Cera, Kevin Costner, Idris Elba, and Jessica Chastain (as Bloom).
What Is Molly Bloom Doing Now?
After completing the 200 hours of community service and the screenplay was done, Molly went to Denver, Colorado.
She said:
”I did a little soul searching to explore where I had gone wrong, why I made the decisions I did, how my definitions of success and ambition were off.”
In the present day, Bloom works to connect entrepreneurial and ambitious women with opportunities to make their mark on the world.
Moreover, she has been asked to speak for companies like SiriusXM Radio and Blackrock Financial. In addition, Molly has appeared on many media outlets and shows such as Vulture, NPR, The Los Angeles Times, Vice, and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
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In 2018, she participated at The Unibet Open Bucharest. The project has drawn attention to unconscious gender bias and gender equality in poker.
Nataly Sopacuaperu, Unibet Open’s Head of Events, stated:
”We’re absolutely thrilled to have secured Molly for our event.”
She went on to say:
”Molly’s Game has been highly rated by poker players for bringing the poker scene to life on screen and I’m especially pleased that Molly will be opening our #QueenRules Ladies event.”
In the same year, she kept a speech at Colorado State University.
In an interview, Molly said that she has no plans to return to the poker world despite her tendency toward high stakes.
In May 2020, Bloom launched OneWorldGroup — a podcast exploring ways to deal with adversity.
Husband
In 2018, Molly told The Carousel:
”I don’t have kids and I’m not married but I am in a happy relationship and live in Denver, Colorado.”
In 2019, Molly Bloom married neuroscientist Devin Effinger.
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The Queen of Mean dishes it out…
Maggie Smith as Countess Violet is the undisputed highlight of each episode of Downton Abbey. Her favourite objects of scorn include unsuitable husbands, Americans, and of course, Isobel Crawley. Read on for some of the loveable snob’s most scathing zingers…
Maggie Bloom Poker Games
“What is a weekend?”
“Is this an instrument of communication or torture?”
“Things are different in America, they live in Wig Wams.”
“I was right about my maid. She’s leaving – to get married! How could she be so selfish?”
“First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I’m living in an H.G. Wells novel.”
“Hepworth men don’t go in for loneliness much. I knew his father in the late 60s. Mais ou sont les neiges d’antan?” (Where are the snows of yesteryear?)
“Why does everyday involve a fight with an American?”
“Alas, I am beyond impropriety.”
“I will applaud your discretion when you leave.”
“I knew this family was approaching disillusion, I wasn’t aware that illusion was already upon us.”
“Everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.”
“We’ll have to take her abroad, in these moments you can usually find an Italian who’s not too picky.”
“Mary won’t take Matthew Crawley, so we better get her settled before the bloom is quite gone off the rose”
Maggie Bloom Poker Club
“Give him a date for when Mary’s out of mourning. No one wants to kiss a girl in black.”
Lady Mary: “I was only going to say Sybil that is entitled to her opinions.”
Countess Violet: “No, she isn’t, until she is married. And then her husband will tell her what her opinions are.”
“Twenty four years ago you married Cora against my wishes for her money. Give it away now and what was the point of your peculiar marriage in the first place?”
Cora Crawley: “Are we to be friends then?”
Countess Violet: “We are allies my dear which can be a good deal more effective.”
“I couldn’t have electricity in the house. I couldn’t sleep a wink. All those vapours seeping about.”
“Why do you always have to pretend to be nicer than the rest of us?”
“Edith, you are a Lady, not Toad of Toad Hall.”
“I don’t dislike him, I just don’t like him. Which is quite different.”
“Oh, I should steer clear of May. Marry in May, rue the day.”
“No doubt you will regard this as rather unorthodox, my pushing into a man’s bedroom uninvited.”
“I was watching her the other night, when you spoke of your wedding. She looked like Juliet on awakening in the tomb.”
“Wasn’t there a masked ball in Paris when cholera broke out? Half the guests were dead before they left the ballroom.”
“Don’t be defeatist, dear, it’s very middle class.”
“I do hope I’m interrupting something.”
Cora: “I hope I don’t hear sounds of a disagreement.”
Countess Violet: “Is that what they call discussion in New York?”
“Last night! He looked so well. Of course it would happen to a foreigner. No Englishman would dream of dying in someone else’s house.”
“Sometimes I feel as if I were living in an H.G. Wells novel.”
“I’m a woman, Mary. I can be as contrary as I choose.”
“If she won’t say yes when he might be poor, he won’t want her when he will be rich.”
“It always happens when you give these little people power, it goes to their heads like strong drink.”
Cora: “I might send her over to visit my aunt. She could get to know New York.”
Countess Violet: “Oh, I don’t think things are quite that desperate.”
“One can’t go to pieces at the death of every foreigner. We’d all be in a constant state of collapse whenever we opened a newspaper.”
Cora: “I hate to go behind Robert’s back.”
Countess Violet: “That is a scruple no successful wife can afford.”
Countess Violet: “Why would you want to go to a real school? You’re not a doctor’s daughter.”
Sybil: “Nobody learns anything from a governess, apart from French and how to curtsy.”
Countess Violet: “What else do you need? Are you thinking of a career in banking?”
Doctor: “Mrs. Crawley tells me she has recommended nitrate of silver and tincture of steel.”
Countess Violet: “Why, is she making a suit of armor?”
Lord Grantham: “We better go in soon or it isn’t fair to Mrs. Patmore.”
Countess Violet: “Oh, is her cooking so precisely timed? You couldn’t tell.”
Countess Violet: “You are quite wonderful the way you see room for improvement wherever you look. I never knew such reforming zeal.”
Mrs. Crawley: “I take that as a compliment.”
Countess Violet: “I must’ve said it wrong.”
“I used to think Mary’s beau was a mésalliance but compared to this he’s positively a Hapsburg.”
“She’s so slight a real necklace would flatten her.”
“Sir Richard, life is a game, where the player must appear ridiculous.”
“You see, sometimes we must let the blow fall by degrees. Give him time to find the strength to face it.”
Sir Richard: “I’m leaving in the morning Lady Grantham. I doubt we’ll meet again.”
Countess Violet: “Do you promise?”
“It’s the job of grandmothers to interfere.”
Isobel and Violet's banter is a highlight of Downton Abbey
“Just because you’re an old widow, I see no necessity to eat off a tray.”
“There can be too much truth in any relationship.
“If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class.”
“She is a good woman. And while the phrase is enough to set my teeth on edge, there are moments when her virtue demands admiration.”
“I wonder your halo doesn’t grow heavy. It must be like wearing a tiara around the clock.”
“The only poet peer I am familiar with is Lord Byron and I presume we all know how that ended.”
“Wars have been waged with less fervour.”
Isobel: How you hate to be wrong.
Countess Violet: I wouldn’t know, I’m not familiar with the sensation.
“It is her fuel. I mean some people run on greed, lust, even love. She runs on indignation.”
“My dear, we country dwellers must beware of being provincial. Try and let your time in London rub off on you a little more.”
“Try not to let those Yankees drive you mad.”
Isobel: It’s only me.
Violet: I always feel that greeting betrays such a lack of self worth.
“No life appears rewarding if you think about it too much.”
“Rosamind has no interest in French. If she wishes to be understood by a foreigner, she shouts.”
“Switzerland has everything to offer, except perhaps conversation. And one can learn to live without that.”
“He’s the most unconvincing fiance I’ve ever come across.”
Countess Violet (to Isobel): Can’t you even offer help without sounding like a trumpet on the peak of the moral high ground.
“Violet: British peerage is a fountain of variety.”
“The combination of open air picnics and after dinner poker make me feel as though I’ve fallen through a looking glass into the Dejeuner sur l’Herbe.”
Martha Levinson: I have no wish to be a great lady.
Countess Violet: A decision that must be reenforced whenever you look in the glass.
“There’s nothing simpler than avoiding people you don’t like. Avoiding one’s friends, that’s the real test.”
Countess Violet (to Lord Grantham): Your father always told the village what they wanted.
Maggie Bloom Poker Game
“Principles are like prayers. Noble of course. But awkward at a party.”