Molly's Poker Game (LA)

Extracted Attributes

• Type

  High-stakes underground poker game

• Location

  Los Angeles, California, USA

• End Event

  Molly Bloom lost control of the game after a dispute with Tobey Maguire

• Start Year

  2004

• Initial Venue

  The Viper Room (basement)

• Founder/Organizer

  Molly Bloom

• Other Noted Venues

  The Four Seasons, private homes, The Cobra Lounge

• Notable Participants

  Tobey Maguire, Ben Affleck, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jason Calacanis

Timeline

• Molly Bloom moves to Los Angeles. (Source: web_search_results)

  2004

• Tobey Maguire initiates a high-stakes poker game at The Viper Room basement; Molly Bloom is recruited by Darin Feinstein to manage and cater. (Source: web_search_results)

  2004

• Molly Bloom establishes Molly Bloom Inc. to formally host poker tournaments, expanding her operation. (Source: web_search_results)

  2007

• The poker games move from the Viper Room to private residences. (Source: web_search_results)

  2008

• Molly Bloom has a dispute with Tobey Maguire over renting a Shuffle Master, leading to her losing control of the LA game. (Source: related_documents)

  Undated

• Molly Bloom relocates to New York City to establish a new, larger poker game after losing control of the LA game. (Source: related_documents)

  Undated

• Molly Bloom's memoir 'Molly's Game' is published, detailing her experiences. (Source: wikipedia)

  2014

• The biographical film 'Molly's Game,' based on Bloom's story, premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival. (Source: wikipedia)

  2017-09-08

Molly's Game

Molly's Game is a 2017 American biographical film written and directed by Aaron Sorkin (in his directorial debut), based on the 2014 memoir by Molly Bloom, who makes reference to Alimzhan Tokhtakhunov's association with running an illegal gambling ring and "a sophisticated Russian organized crime money-laundering network that operated out of unit 63A in Trump Tower in New York." It stars Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Jeremy Strong, Chris O'Dowd, Joe Keery, Brian D'Arcy James, and Bill Camp. The film follows Bloom (Chastain), who becomes the target of an FBI investigation after the underground poker empire she runs for Hollywood celebrities, athletes, business tycoons, and the Russian mob is exposed. Principal photography began in November 2016 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The film premiered on September 8, 2017, at the Toronto International Film Festival, and began a limited theatrical release in the United States on December 25, 2017, by STX Entertainment, then going to world-wide distribution January 5, 2018, and grossed $59 million worldwide. Molly's Game received positive reviews, with particular praise for Sorkin's screenplay, as well as Chastain and Elba's performances, with that of the former considered one of the best of her career by some critics. The film earned Chastain a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress – Drama, while Sorkin earned nominations for his screenplay at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, Writers Guild of America Awards, and BAFTA Awards.

Web Search Results

• Molly Bloom talks about the celebrities at her poker game ... - YouTube

  and I just wanted to be somewhere warm so I went to LA if I could go back and tell you young Molly if you want to go find yourself Los Angeles is the absolute worst place to do that far none I would but I can't and I started working uh a bunch of odd jobs and I got uh asked One Day by my boss um will you serve or I got told you will serve drinks in my poker game tomorrow night and so I went home and did the you know requisite research on uh this event that you could and I Googled things like [...] # Molly Bloom talks about the celebrities at her poker game & choosing not to work with the FBI ## OxfordUnion 2370000 subscribers 273 likes ### Description 42765 views Posted: 23 Feb 2024 Molly Bloom started running a poker game in Los Angeles in 2007 - the game attracted some of the biggest names in Hollywood as well as sports, politics and tech. Players included Tobey Maguire, Ben Affleck and Leonardo diCaprio. [...] incredibly kind of stressful and difficult thing to do the end so the LA game was fun okay um I had my friends that would work with me you know we'd be in these hotel suites after the game there'd be like a million dollars in cash in the room um I I was learning about the world from some of the people who were actively involved in making decisions that were impacting it um it it was a very incredible time in my life and um and then I lost the game uh one of the players um wanted me to do things

• The Toronto locations that show up in Aaron Sorkin's Molly's Game

  Though Molly’s Game is set almost entirely in New York City and Los Angeles, the film’s true roots are in Toronto. Writer-director Aaron Sorkin filmed it here in late 2016, and it premiered at TIFF last fall. The movie recounts the real-life exploits of Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain, no stranger to the GTA after shooting Miss Sloaneand Crimson Peakhere), a world-class freestyle skier who became a hostess of ultra-exclusive poker games after an accident ended her athletic career. Molly’s Game is

• Molly Bloom (author) - Wikipedia

  Molly Bloom (born April 21, 1978) is an American entrepreneur, speaker, and author of the 2014 memoir Molly's Game. During the 2000s, she became known as the "Poker Princess", for organizing high stakes underground poker in Los Angeles that attracted A-list actors. She was previously a competitive skier, a member of the U.S. Ski Team, and was injured while attempting to qualify for the Olympics. [...] In 2004, Bloom moved to Los Angeles and found work as a bartender. In 2004, Darin Feinstein, one of the co-owners of The Viper Room nightclub, was approached by actor Tobey Maguire about hosting a high-stakes poker game in the club's basement. Feinstein recruited Bloom to cater to the players and manage the game. In 2007, Bloom started her own business, registering Molly Bloom Inc. as an event and catering company to host poker tournaments. By 2008, the games had graduated to private homes and

• Molly's Game - Wikipedia

  Molly moves to New York City to begin a new underground poker game. After reaching out to many wealthy New Yorkers, Molly finds enough players for several weekly games. Despite continuous success, she fears being unable to cover her losses when players cannot pay. Her dealer convinces her to begin taking a percentage "Rake (poker)") of large pots "Pot (poker)"), recouping her potential losses but making her game an illegal gambling operation. [...] Molly's Game is a 2017 American biographical film written and directed by Aaron Sorkin (in his directorial debut), based on the 2014 memoir by Molly Bloom "Molly Bloom (author)"), who makes reference to Alimzhan Tokhtakhunov's association with running an illegal gambling ring and "a sophisticated Russian organized crime money-laundering network that operated out of unit 63A in Trump Tower in New York." It stars Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Jeremy Strong, Chris [...] Instead of attending law school immediately, Molly takes a yearlong sabbatical and moves to Los Angeles. Becoming a bottle service waitress at a club, she soon meets Dean, an ostentatious but unsuccessful real estate developer. She becomes his office manager and is soon involved in running his underground poker games at "The Cobra Lounge". Many famous and wealthy individuals, including movie stars, investment bankers and sports players, are involved in Dean's game. Molly earns large sums of

• The real 'Molly's Game': Inside Tobey Maguire's underground poker ...

  If the story sounds familiar, that’s because it inspired the 2018 movie “Molly’s Game,” starring Jessica Chastain as Molly Bloom, the former Olympic-class skier who was the hostess of the operation — and who later would be arrested on gambling-related charges tied to a game she ran in New York City. But, Curtis writes, neither the movie nor Bloom’s own memoir tells the true story of the LA game. [...] Curtis met Maguire at a 2004 poker game in Los Angeles. Unbeknownst to Maguire, Curtis had a long career as a sleight-of-hand expert, scamming high-stakes games in LA. When Maguire invited Curtis to the actor’s Hollywood Hills home for a game — in which players included lawyer Jon Moonves and billionaire scion Kevin Washington — Curtis played it straight and was careful not to win too much.