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Welcome back to another episode of Trading Secrets.

Today you're diving into the mysterious world of poker,

with someone who has one of the most fascinating stories of all time,

personal favorite. In fact, so fascinating that her life was produced into a big time film featuring

some of Hollywood's most famous A-listers, including Jess, oh wow, we got some big names in here,

Kevin Costner, Jeremy Strong, there's some big ones Miss Elba, and her name is Molly Blue,

and her movie is called Molly's Game. Her plan growing up wasn't to run poker games,

though she actually was a very talented athlete, third in the nation for ski and training to

compete at the Olympics, and she unfortunately crashed on her qualifying run.

So how did she go from skiing to poker? Well, luckily she's here to tell us the story,

and of course we're here to get into all the details about money and the whole poker industry,

which I am wildly obsessed with. So Molly, thank you so much for being with us today.

Yeah, I'm so happy to be here, thanks for having me.

Absolutely, and Molly and I were just talking a little bit before we got going.

Molly just had her first baby, so what a huge congratulations to you, that is so exciting.

Thank you. What was more time consuming? Managing a baby as your first or dealing with underground

poker games, not craziness that went with it, because both of them, I'm sure, we're late nights

and crazy times. That's right, good, now that they're pretty similar in terms of the hours that

you keep, it's kind of a 24-7 thing without a lot of sleep. So, you know, I had some early life

training to prepare me for taking care of an infant. I love it, that is good stuff.

And one of the things, Molly, I've heard you on so many different interviews,

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