November 26 2025
- Molly’s Game insights
- Jason not really invited by her ever - he claims he did get an invite
- World class skier - injured during college so moved to LA to explore
- Got into poker through a chance opportunity - recognized the opportunity and capitalized on it
- Access to any part of higher society through this
- $10K to $50K buyin in her LA game
- Someone in LA (speculation about who) - took over her game
- So she moved to New York
- $250K buyin in her NY games
- $10M on the table at times
- Raised in a competitive environment by her father with 2 other super successful brothers
- Got involved with folks from Brighton Beach, etc - folks who were involved with the Russian mob, and there were folks who claimed to be with the Italian mob who attacked her
- Apparently some of those folks might have been arrested in the mob shakedown a few days later
- She dropped her standards about who she let in the game
- She started taking a cut from the pots (casinos are licensed to do this but she wasn’t - doing a home game)
- Feds took all her money
- She went to Colorado to be with her mother
- Moved back to LA 2 years later - Feds broke into her apartment and arrested her
- Preet Bharara - SDNY - politically ambitious etc
- They made a deal with her to be an informant, etc but she didn’t take it
- She was millions of dollars in debt - but didn’t go to jail
- She wrote a book - didn’t do well
- She pitched the movie to Aaron Sorkin - got the offer and finally made it - just got done paying off the government a year ago
- She turned down hit pieces from journalists
- Courage > Comfort
- Pay a big price internally if you don’t
- The kinds of people who play this game
- Some who are on self destructive bullet train
- Hurting their marriage, doing drugs, hedonic treadmill gone crazy
- Highly competitive who prefer volatility and chaos but have self control
- People who love the game - the aspects of it that make it an amazing game - mental/social thrill of it
- Some who are on self destructive bullet train
- Best celebrity poker player - Tobey Maguire, then Ben Affleck
- Has become a sales speaker
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