Molly Bloom grew up in a small town in Colorado. She had been a national-level skier — her brother is Olympic skier Jeremy Bloom — but scoliosis cut her career short. So she moved to Los Angeles in 2003, became a personal assistant to a real-estate investor who bought a share in the Viper Room, the infamous Sunset Strip nightclub. Her boss had her organize a “no-limit hold ’em” game in the Viper Room basement one that. It was there she became “Poker Princess,” the girl who had celebrities by the score leaning over million-dollar piles of chips. Between 2005 and 2011, Bloom began hosting games at a different luxury suite or millionaire’s house each week, writes New York Post, and would hire Playboy Playmates to serve food and drinks. No professional players were allowed, and the guest list was small and secret. Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Affleck reported sweated over hands, writes NY Post. Bloom’s games were crashed by the FBI in 2011, and two years later, she was part of a 34-defendant indictment that charged her with helping to run an illegal $100 million gambling ring. She got off with a year of probation. All this is detailed in an action-packed movie, starring Jessica Chastain and directed by Aaron Sorkin.
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