How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game)

put a gun in my mouth beep the hell out of me. And he said, if you tell anyone about this I know where your family lives. For the first time in my life, I knew finally it was game over. I'm Molly Bloom. Dove the poker princess, the former waitress who took a small poker game run out of a dingy nightclub to the biggest underground poker game in the world. For Hollywood celebrities to millionaires. They literally made a Hollywood movie about it. The game turned from legal Too illegal. I had become the biggest game runner in New York City. Leo DiCaprio, Fan Affleck, and Toby McGuire, politicians who was making four to six million dollars a year. It was unbelievable. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollar buy in. So I couldn't sit down unless I brought two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to lose. That's right. And you saw someone lose a hundred million dollars in a night. Yes. This is where the science of how you make people feel became a really big tool. And I would memorize people's lives. The names of their kids, what they cared about, favorite food order, drink order. These things can absolutely be used for good, but I just became obsessed.

What had been about trying to be an entrepreneur and be gutsy started to be exclusively about the money and the power. But I paid a huge price for it. I started to partner with people that were not the right people to partner with, and in the middle of the night I get arrested by seventeen FBI agents, machine guns. They put me in handcuffs and they put this piece of paper in front of me that says the United States of America versus Molly Bloom. The FBI gives you an ultimatum. They were gonna give you millions if you snitch one of the players in the game. I had forty eight hours. What happens then? Uh

Wolly. What do I need to understand about your earliest context to understand you? Going right in. Um I think

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