Molly Bloom On How She Ran The Biggest Underground Hollywood Celebrity Poker Ring & Lived To Tell The Story After Dealing With The Mob, The Law, & Some Of The World's Most Powerful People

The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast

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🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 102 minutes

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#359: On today's episode we are joined by Molly Bloom. Molly Bloom is an American entrepreneur, speaker, and author of the 2014 memoir Molly's Game. She had trained for years to become an Olympic skier, but was injured while trying to qualify for the Olympics. What she did next would be made into a Hollywood movie directed by Aaron Sorkin and staring Jessica Chastain in which Molly heads up one of the largest underground poker rings ever established where celebrities and the worlds most powerful people would come to play.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:24.9	That was this big moment of like, wow, you can do the thing that is so
0:29.6	scary and maybe it works, maybe it doesn't, but like it was a rush to me.
0:34.1	You know, it was such a rush and it was like this majorly empowering moment in
0:38.0	my life that eventually I took too far. I start running these games, I'm making
0:43.6	millions of dollars a year, I have like, I'm learning about what stocks to invest in,
0:49.1	I'm doing art deals, I'm middleing, you know, like all kinds of stuff and all
0:53.6	these like incredibly prolific people are playing in this game and it becomes
0:57.6	this brand Molly's game.
1:02.4	Big, big, big announcement to make Lauren right now on the show. We are approaching
1:06.2	what almost 400 of these and I think Lauren, this one might be top three of all time.
1:12.4	I'm going to say this might be top one for me.
1:15.6	Wow, that's a big statement. I wanted to say that it's up there. This was, you know,
1:19.8	we ended up talking to Molly, Molly Bloom, who's on the show today for a very long time.
1:23.6	We actually went over our lot of studio time and just shot the shit
1:26.3	because this story is, it's wild, it's out there. It's captivating. She's an amazing
1:31.6	storyteller. It's got so many things. It's got a little, it's got danger. It's got suspense.
1:36.2	It's got sadness. It's got pretty well. I mean, it's got everything.
1:39.0	This story is so incredible. Michael Bostick's jaw was on the ground the entire time,
1:43.6	which is really hard. I had to pick it up off the ground. I asked every single question.
1:48.1	You can possibly ask to Molly. She was so open, so cool. And she tells an incredible story.
1:55.2	I'm not surprised that her story became a movie called Molly's Game.
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