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

May 24, 2021

Molly Bloom, American entrepreneur, speaker, and author, joins the podcast to discuss her experience running the biggest underground Hollywood celebrity poker ring. They explore topics such as the profitability and control of owning seats in the ring, the consequences of not paying debts, building the biggest poker game in NYC, and her involvement with the Russian mob. Molly also shares her journey of becoming a convicted felon and trying to get her book turned into a movie.

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Starting as Poker Waitress

Molly Bloom started as a cocktail waitress serving drinks at an underground poker game in LA.
She quickly learned about poker culture and began managing and running the game herself.

INSIGHT

Power Through Poker Ownership

Owning and running an exclusive poker game creates access to wealth, power, and influential people.
Controlling who sits at the table is a strategic position in the high-stakes poker world.

ANECDOTE

Russian Mob Connection Discovered

Molly unknowingly included Russian mob-linked players who were running a massive insurance fraud.
This attracted federal attention due to wiretaps and criminal investigations.

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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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