num_pages: 272
description: When Molly Bloom was a little girl growing up in a small Colorado town she watched her brothers win medals ace tests and receive high praise from everyone they met. Molly wanted nothing more than to bask in that glow a little herself so she pushed herself tooas a student as an athlete. She was successful but felt like she was always coming from behind. She wanted to break free to find a life without rules and limits a life where she didn't have to measure up to anyone or anythingwhere she could become whatever she wanted.Molly wanted more and she got more than she could have ever bargained for.In Molly's Game Molly Bloom takes the reader through her adventures running an exclusive high-stakes private poker game. Her clients ranged from iconic stars like Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Affleck to politicians and financial titans so powerful they moved markets and changed the course of history. With rich detail Molly describes a world that until now has been shrouded in glamour privilege and secrecy one where she fearlessly took on the Russian and Italian mobsuntil she met the one adversary she could not outsmart even though she had justice on her side: the United States government.Molly's Game is an incredible coming-of-age story about a young girl who rejected convention in pursuit of her version of the American dream. It's the story of how she gainedand then losther place at the table and of everything she learned about poker love and life in the process.
language: English
title: Molly's Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker
publisher: It Books