Molly's Game

Author: Molly Bloom
Publisher: William Collins
ISBN: 9780008278366
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY AARON SORKIN, AND STARRING JESSICA CHASTAIN, IDRIS ELBA, KEVIN COSTNER AND MICHAEL CERA The true story of the 26-year-old woman behind the most exclusive, high-stakes underground poker game in the world When Molly Bloom was a little girl in a small Colorado town, she dreamed of a life without rules and limits, a life where she didn't have to measure up to anyone or anything - where she could become whatever she wanted. She ultimately got more than she ever could have bargained for. In Molly's Game, she takes you through her adventures running an exclusive private poker game catering to Hollywood royalty like Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Affleck, athletes, billionaires, politicians and financial titans. With rich detail, Molly describes a world of glamour, privilege and secrecy in which she made millions, lived the high life and fearlessly took on the Russian and Italian mobs - until she met theone adversary she could not outsmart: the UnitedStates government.

Molly's Game

Author: Molly Bloom
Publisher: William Collins
ISBN: 9780008274429
Category : Poker
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Molly's Game

Author: Molly Bloom
Publisher: It Books
ISBN: 9780062213075
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Now a major motion picture, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin and starring Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, and Michael Cera—the true story of "Hollywood’s poker princess" who gambled everything, won big, then lost it all. 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.

Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist

Author: Houston Curtis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510762175
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
“Right out of the gate, the entire game was designed to empty the pockets of those rich, celeb-loving LA suckers.”—Houston Curtis Leonardo DiCaprio. Alex Rodriguez. Tobey Maguire. Ben Affleck. Matt Damon. John Cassavetes. What do these people have in common? Not just fame and fortune; all these men are also alumni of the ultra-exclusive, high-stakes poker ring that inspired Aaron Sorkin’s Oscar-nominated film, Molly’s Game. But Houston Curtis, the card shark who co-founded the game with Tobey Maguire, knows that Sorkin’s is the whitewashed version. In Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist, Curtis goes all-in, revealing the true story behind the game. From its origins with Maguire to staking DiCaprio’s first game, installing Molly Bloom, avoiding the hookers and blow down the hall, and weathering the FBI investigation that left Curtis with a lien on his house, this is the no-holds-barred account of the world’s most exclusive Texas Hold ’Em game from the man who started it—with all the names and salacious details that Molly’s Game left out. With the insider appeal of Rounders, more A-listers than Ocean’s 11, and the excitement of The Sting, Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist is the untold, insider’s story that makes Molly’s Game look tame.

Molly’s Game: The Riveting Book that Inspired the Aaron Sorkin Film

Author: Molly Bloom
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008274436
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Positively Fifth Street

Author: James McManus
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374706204
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 450

Book Description
Rough sex, black magic, murder, and the science-and eros-of gambling meet in the ultimate book about Las Vegas James McManus was sent to Las Vegas by Harper's to cover the World Series of Poker in 2000, especially the mushrooming progress of women in the $23 million event, and the murder of Ted Binion, the tournament's prodigal host, purportedly done in by a stripper and her boyfriend with a technique so outré it took a Manhattan pathologist to identify it. Whether a jury would convict the attractive young couple was another story altogether. McManus risks his entire Harper's advance in a long-shot attempt to play in the tournament himself. Only with actual table experience, he tells his skeptical wife, can he capture the hair-raising brand of poker that determines the world champion. The heart of the book is his deliciously suspenseful account of the tournament itself-the players, the hand-to-hand combat, and his own unlikely progress in it. Written in the tradition of The Gambler and The Biggest Game in Town, Positively Fifth Street is a high-stakes adventure, a penetrating study of America's card game, and a terrifying but often hilarious account of one man's effort to understand what Edward O. Wilson has called "Pleistocene exigencies"-the eros and logistics of our primary competitive instincts.

The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King

Author: Michael Craig
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780446593977
Category : GAMES
Languages : en
Pages : 153

Book Description
A tale of outsized egos, appetites, and ambitions, this completely true, heart-stopping story tells of one man, 20 million dollars, and the most expensive game of poker ever played.

Surrender to the Billionaire Boys Club

Author: Cara Miller
Publisher: Cara Miller Books
ISBN: 1533720126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361

Book Description
Money doesn’t solve all problems. Even when you have a billion dollars. A surprise invitation. A shocking announcement. And Kelsey North’s life will never be the same. While dealing with the pain of her best friend dropping out of Darrow Law School, and struggling through law school exams, Kelsey finds herself swept into the complex world of billionaires Tyler Olsen and Ryan Perkins. Will Kelsey be able to maintain her small town values, or will she be seduced by the Billionaire Boys Club?

Billionaire Bad Boy

Author: Kendra Little
Publisher: Kendra Little
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153

Book Description
**This novel is included in a 4-book collection titled BAD BOYS AND BILLIONAIRES by Kendra Little. You can get all 4 books for a lower price by purchasing the collection.** Music industry agent Annie McCallum has a week to learn how to be wild or lose the hot young music artist and the last chance to save her father's agency. The problem is, Annie has always been a nerd who thinks high heels are a weapon invented to make even bigger fools of stumbling idiots like herself. To achieve the unachievable, her boss enlists the help of a man who owes him a favor, Zack DiMarco, a billionaire with a mysterious past and melt in your mouth chocolate eyes. Soon, Zack is teaching Annie to dress in leather, cruise the streets on his motorbike, drink beer with alarming results and flirt like an LA starlet. Despite their rough start, Annie is soon falling in love with him, a man so far out of her league it's not funny. Much to his horror, Zack is strongly attracted to the real Annie, a girl who could get him to give up his bachelor ways and steal his heart. A heart that he wants to keep untouched after learning the hard way what love can do to a man. This funny, sexy billionaire romance will make you smile.

Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy

Author: Gabriella Coleman
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781689830
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 497

Book Description
The ultimate book on the worldwide movement of hackers, pranksters, and activists collectively known as Anonymous—by the writer the Huffington Post says “knows all of Anonymous’ deepest, darkest secrets” “A work of anthropology that sometimes echoes a John le Carré novel.” —Wired Half a dozen years ago, anthropologist Gabriella Coleman set out to study the rise of this global phenomenon just as some of its members were turning to political protest and dangerous disruption (before Anonymous shot to fame as a key player in the battles over WikiLeaks, the Arab Spring, and Occupy Wall Street). She ended up becoming so closely connected to Anonymous that the tricky story of her inside–outside status as Anon confidante, interpreter, and erstwhile mouthpiece forms one of the themes of this witty and entirely engrossing book. The narrative brims with details unearthed from within a notoriously mysterious subculture, whose semi-legendary tricksters—such as Topiary, tflow, Anachaos, and Sabu—emerge as complex, diverse, politically and culturally sophisticated people. Propelled by years of chats and encounters with a multitude of hackers, including imprisoned activist Jeremy Hammond and the double agent who helped put him away, Hector Monsegur, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy is filled with insights into the meaning of digital activism and little understood facets of culture in the Internet age, including the history of “trolling,” the ethics and metaphysics of hacking, and the origins and manifold meanings of “the lulz.”