Welcome to the show I'm Jordan Harbinger as always I'm here with my producer Jason to fill up a several years ago when I was living in New York City

I met a guy that was an underground poker player at first

I thought he was just a blowhard who'd had a bit too much whiskey and maybe got lost in his own tall tails

I later learned through actual photographic evidence on his phone that not only was everything he was saying likely true

But there was a lot a lot more to the story and this poker underworld that he'd been participating in was really something else

Fast forward to today and I'm getting a look even deeper inside the world of underground poker and the ridiculousness that goes down during easy

Elite games played by a list athletes and celebrities with tens of millions of dollars changing hands all the time

Who better to hear it all from than Molly Bloom the woman behind poker games so legendary that the name Molly's game

Ended up not only being the code name of these high stakes tables

But also the title of her best-selling book and a feature film by Aaron Sorkin

Today Molly's gonna take us behind the curtain and tell us what she's learned running games and running game on

Some of the wealthiest and most well-known people in the world what types of psychology she used to control the games and the players in them

rapport secrets for generating trust with people who don't trust anyone and

How it all came crashing down lots of insight and excitement in this episode of the Jordan Harbanger show here with Molly Bloom

All right, here's Molly Bloom

So you start a legendary poker game and you get involved at the most base of levels

With some of the most famous people and you you saw their dirty laundry and I think you are around when some of the dirty laundry

Was soiled so to speak you got a gun shoved in your mouth by a mobster arrested by the FBI and a dramatic take down

Reminiscent of any Hollywood movie

How the heck did a straight-a student in champion skier make that slide?

I want to start from the beginning here with like the childhood because everything that it happened when you were a kid

Kind of informs how the heck you ended up waking up one day, you know getting your butt kicked by the Italian mob

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