![]() ![]() Richards says Bloom made her money from “tips.”Īt her peak, Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Macaulay Culkin, Ben Affleck and Pete Sampras regularly sat at her tables. Under California law, poker can be played at private homes, but individuals can’t explicitly organize games unless they are licensed and paying taxes. In 2007, she registered Molly Bloom Inc., an “event and catering” business. Gores, and the plucky powerbroker lured her former boss’ players to her own games. “She was entrepreneurial and a very smart girl,” said Ronald Richards, a well-known celebrity attorney in Beverly Hills who represents Bloom, in his first in-depth interview about the poker princess.īloom started running games for billionaire leveraged-buyout businessman Alec E. Bloom watched, learned and - most importantly - developed connections with the A-listers at the games. He also happened to run underground high-stakes poker games. The 5-foot-3, 115-pound beauty left for Hollywood around 2003, landing a job as an assistant to a real-estate mogul. Living in the fast lane was a theme - she pleaded guilty to speeding again in 19, along with driving with expired license plates, court records show. The next year, she pleaded guilty to speeding and was sentenced to 30 days in jail. Molly was a bit of a wild child, busted in 1996, at age 18, by the Fort Collins Police Department at her Colorado State University dorm on disorderly conduct charges for unreasonable noise and for serving alcohol to minors. Molly and her little brothers, Jeremy and Jordan, spent their summers hiking in the hills and their winters knee-deep in powder. But then, the unsinkable Molly Bloom moved her enterprise to New York, and the game changed.īLOOM grew up in the small town of Loveland, Colo., but her parents - Larry, a clinical psychologist, and Charlene “Char,” a ski instructor - let their kids spend most of their time at the picturesque Keystone ski mountain. It paid off - within months the 20-something ski bum from Colorado was amassing $400,000 a year. “There would be a quarter-million dollars on the table, easily, all in cash,” said a source, who added that her games were among the priciest in the country. The doings were discreet and accounts were settled civilly. Her dealers were no-nonsense aces from the local casinos who dealt fast. The sexy brunette brought in the foxiest bottle-service girls from Hollywood clubs to top off their drinks and rub their aching backs. Pretty Molly Dubin Bloom, 33, was there to keep them happy. Carefully selected groups of eight gathered at night at the beach homes of the filthy rich and at swank hotels suites like the Four Seasons, Beverly Hills Hotel and the Peninsula Hotel. ![]() It was the late 2000s in LA, and Molly’s was the exclusive world of high-stakes poker for A-list celebrities and men with money. And respond to people easily.In Molly’s game, she stacked the deck with Hollywood kings. I like this medium because it's like having a face to face conversation. So while I was concerned, I still wasn't worried. Like any big career move it's natural to have second thoughts. It made sense that he would talk to them and worst case, even if he was having second thoughts the agent would be able to give me updates. I also knew this agents were coming to town. I was getting the same reports everyone else was. He hit me back immediately saying thanks. When I got back to the hotel I texted him that I wasn't in front of his house. I wasn't going to sit in front of his house. ![]() I wasn't in a rush, that I was happy to come by there and say hi or if he wanted to make the date fun, take them to Dallas for a night out.Īfter about 10 minutes I went back to the hotel. It's inside a small gated community but the gate was wide open so we drove in and I literally walked up to his door. So I flew down to Houston and got a room at the galleria, which is just a few minutes from his house. Then on Tuesday the communications basically stopped and we started hearing rumblings from multiple people that something was up. Through all of Monday we were texting back and forth discussing players available, the amount of cap room we had left. Here is the full message, transcribed from screenshots tweeted by Baseball Prospectus' Kenny Ducey:Īfter all the nonsense coming from an ESPN employee on Twitter, I thought I would provide the events of the day on Tuesday.
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