Molly's Game: La historia real de la mujer de 26 anos detrAs del juego de póker clandestino mAs exclusivo y peligroso del mundo
Written by Molly Bloom
Narrated by Fabiola Stevenson
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Molly Bloom revela cómo construyó uno de los juegos de poker más exclusivos y de grandes apuestas del mundo. Una historia de excesos y peligro, glamur y avaricia.
A finales de los años 2000, Molly Bloom, una pequeña joven de veintitantos años originaria de Loveland, Colorado hizo las apuestas más altas en el juego de póquer más exclusivo que Hollywood jamás había visto. Ella se convirtió en su amante, su domador de leones, su agente y su oxígeno.
Todos querían participar pero pocos fueron invitados a jugar. Cientos de millones de dólares se ganaron y perdieron en su mesa. Este era el juego para aquellos que podían, celebridades, magnates de negocios y millonarios. Molly organizaba sus juegos en suites palaciegas con vistas hermosas y comodidades exquisitas. Viajaba en privado, cenaba en restaurantes exclusivos, se codeaba con los jefes de estudios de Hollywood, era cortejada por hombres atractivos y se enteraba de los mejores chismes del mundo, hasta que todo a su alrededor se derrumbó.
Una mirada trás las escenas del juego de Molly, la vida que creó, la vida que perdió y lo que aprendió en el proceso.
Molly Bloom
Molly Bloom grew up in Loveland, Colorado. She attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, majoring in political science. For several years Molly organized one of the largest high-stakes poker games in the country. She currently lives in Los Angeles.
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Reviews for Molly's Game
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I recently watched the excellent movie of this book so decided to read Molly's book. Without giving anything away Molly earned her fame by running some of the top poker games in LA, later NYC, and occasionally NYC. Stars such as De Caprio, MacGuire, and Affleck were players. BTW there is no personal information divulged on these players.This is a well-written book and a very quick read which is not to say it is shy on detail. The book does not cover the same time span that the movie does as it was written before her trial. The movie is fairly accurate to the book with a couple of major exceptions that I won't divulge. I found Molly's character in the film engaging and certainly so in the book too. Molly felt she followed the law in her games which she likely did and was careful not to engage in peripheral dodgy activities but still got shafted by the “justice” system as she was a pawn to get at some of her players. She seems to be in a good place now. Excellent quick read.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A friend of mine recommended the movie so I thought I would read the book first to see how close they paralleled. Though the story is somewhat intriguing I was not on the edge of my seat reading this book. The scenario of her rising up through the male dominated scene of power poker was just not as interesting to me and predictable where it would all lead to her downfall.I was a bit surprised that a number of movie stars were named as she led off with using a fictitious disclaimer to protect others. But then again those names were important to give the story some notoriety and they are known as big players. So now onto the movie itself and will see if I come away with a different impression, but to me the book was nothing special.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I started reading this about an hour after I finished watching the movie, which I would rate 4 stars as Aaron Sorkin wisely excised all of Bloom's romantic relationships and put a Hollywood gloss on her story that downplayed her greed and shallowness. The book starts well and names the celebrity names that Sorkin left out of his movie, which was really probably the main reason I read it. By the end of the book, I was a little tired of Bloom's thoughts on life and was starting to question the credibility of some of the stories being told, but I still enjoyed it overall as the basis of (or supplement to) a darn good movie.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very good story. Movie version sticks close to the book, however reveals some of the "hollywood-ized" parts that did not exist in her book. But, the book also provides many, many more of the details that make her story fascinating. Plus, she dishes on the real movie star "JERKS" who were asses in the way they treated her...
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I really liked the movie and just had to read the book, even though I'd seen the movie, the book was still very interesting and shed light on some things that had been changed in the movie version. Fascinating story. I'm surprised they took all of her personal relationships out of the movie. Normally Hollywood adds love stories.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Meh. We listened to it as an audiobook, the premise seemed exciting, but it droned on to the point we lost interest and forced ourselves to finish it. The premise (I did not know it was also a movie until I found the book) for the movie makes the post-arrest and the mob seem more central than it was, so the drama was weak.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I could not stop listening to this book and can not wait to see the movie. Molly Bloom, a savvy, young woman, describes her life in the fast lane as a successful player in the high stakes world of poker. Molly lands in LA after college and ends up working for the owner of the famed Viper Room where she learns the ropes about organizing and running poker tables.