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Información de la obraMolly's Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker por Molly Bloom
![]() Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Molly Bloom spent her life competing, first with her brothers, then on the ski slopes. She was used to living fast and working hard. Eventually, she moved to L.A. and was groomed to be the perfect personal assistant. Whatever was required, she could figure out how to get it. So when her boss decided to host a poker game at his club, The Viper Room, Molly was intrigued. She knew nothing about playing poker, but when she got thousands in tips, she was hooked. As the game grew, everyone who was anyone wanted an invite, and as the game’s gatekeeper, Molly soon had access to the contact information of Hollywood’s rich and famous. She quickly learned to cater to Hollywood royalty, athletes, and billionaires, and in turn lived the high life. It was a world of privilege, secrets, glamour, and danger. Follow Molly on her adventures as she reaches new highs and lows. No matter how many times, Molly loses the game, she always comes back with a bigger game and higher stakes until she meets her downfall, a brush with the Russian mob. Will she be able to rebuild her life? Or will she lose everything to a game? Check out this nonfiction book that reads more like fiction to find out for yourself. The Bottom Line: This is a fast paced read that lets readers escape their current lives and enter (albeit vicariously) the world of (very) high-stakes, underground poker. With unabashed honesty, the author shares the highs and lows of a world most of us will never see. This story of ambition, power, and escape is highly recommended for just about anyone who enjoys stories of the underdog coming out on top. P.S. Molly sprinkled handy tidbits of poker wisdom throughout the book. Enjoy! For the complete review including Book Club Notes, please visit the Mini Book Bytes Book Review Blog. I mostly read this to see how it differed from the movie. Was a really quick read and her writing style is very similar to the time of the movie. A quick and very dirty read. This is definitely a voyeur's book, an invitation to peeks behind some luxurious-looking curtains that in fact are dripping with filth. Horrible people, horrible wastes -- I get the "fun" but I literally took a shower after finishing (I skipped a lot). They one take-away is that our current economics, where a very few are able to piss away millions while so many struggle -- needs a dramatic change. Hard to imagine a characterisation of The American Dream which is more repulsive than this. Not to mention a movie which preserves for posterity the repellent nature of the game of poker. As one who has played games in serious ways at high levels, to watch dicks and pigs sitting there swilling around, chucking away hundreds of millions of dollars in a real 'mine's bigger than yours' comp is embarrassing. To think I once thought of learning this game - one mistake I have avoided in life. I'm used to an intellectual, rigorous quality to the games I play and poker doesn't begin to cut it. Ugggh. I mean, truly ugggghhhhhhhhhhhh. I challenge anybody to come away from this movie and feel other than defiled. It was an incredibly unedifying experience. Made worse by the discovery, upon checking that the movie had stuck to the facts that: What is Molly Bloom doing today? Recommended for: anybody sucker enough to be surprised that the US of A is itself. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pronto una gran película Apuesta maestra, escrita y dirigida por Aaron Sorkin y protagonizada por Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner y Michael Cera, la verdadera historia de la princesa del póker de Hollywood que apostó todo, ganó a lo grande y luego lo perdió todo. Molly Bloom revela cómo construyó uno de los juegos de poker más exclusivos y de grandes apuestas del mundo. Una historia de excesos y peligro, glamur y avaricia. A finales de los años 2000, Molly Bloom, una pequeña joven de veintitantos años originaria de Loveland, Colorado hizo las apuestas más altas en el juego de póker más exclusivo que Hollywood jamás había visto. Ella se convirtió en su amante, su domador de leones, su agente y su oxígeno. Todos querían participar pero pocos fueron invitados a jugar. Cientos de millones de dólares se ganaron y perdieron en su mesa. Este era el juego para aquellos que podían, celebridades, magnates de negocios y millonarios. Molly organizaba sus juegos en suites palaciegas con vistas hermosas y comodidades exquisitas. Viajaba en privado, cenaba en restaurantes exclusivos, se codeaba con los jefes de estudios de Hollywood, era cortejada por hombres atractivos y se enteraba de los mejores chismes del mundo, hasta que todo a su alrededor se derrumbó. Una mirada trás las escenas del juego de Molly, la vida que creó, la vida que perdió y lo que aprendió en el proceso. Molly Bloom reveals how she built one of the most exclusive, high-stakes underground poker games in the world--an insider's story of excess and danger, glamour and greed. In the late 2000s, Molly Bloom, a twentysomething petite brunette from Loveland Colorado, ran the highest stakes, most exclusive poker game Hollywood had ever seen--she was its mistress, its lion tamer, its agent, and its oxygen. Everyone wanted in, few were invited to play. Hundreds of millions of dollars were won and lost at her table. Molly's game became the game for those in the know--celebrities, business moguls, and millionaires. Molly staged her games in palatial suites with beautiful views and exquisite amenities. She flew privately, dined at exclusive restaurants, hobnobbed with the heads of Hollywood studios, was courted by handsome leading men, and was privy to the world's most delicious gossip, until it all came crashing down around her. Molly's Game is a behind the scenes look at Molly's game, the life she created, the life she lost, and what she learned in the process. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Ami igazán érdekes, az az, hogy ebből az alapból hogyan csinált filmet Aaron Sorkin. Alaposan kigyomlálta a szereplőgárdát, behozta az ismert idealizmusát a teljes mértékben kitalált ügyvéd segítségével, írt egy fantasztikus, feliratozhatatlan szöveget, a védjegyévé vált, gyaloglás közben előadott szellemes, pergő párbeszédekkel, és hangsúlyosabb szerepbe állította az apát. Hozzátette a könyv megjelenése utáni történéseket (a valódi ítéletet, például), de talán túlságosan leegyszerűsítette főszereplője motivációját, amelyet a film vége felé a pszichológus apa analizál. A szintén pluszban kitalált síbaleset is a Sorkin-féle dramatizálás része, és azért attól kaptam egy kis idegrángást, amikor