Gambling is defined as the first of all evils, but the physical and mental stimulation brought by gambling is simply unstoppable. Gambling is more like a sexy goddess with a layer of mystery. People who have never seen it always want to see what it is;
In response, savvy publishers seized the opportunity to encourage and encourage Molly Bloom to write a best-selling book, Molly's Game.
Because it is said that the people who come to her gamble are some Hollywood superstars and giants, including Leonardo DiCaprio (Little Plum) and Ben Affleck (player of Batman).
It seems that the heart of human gossip is universal regardless of nationality.
According to Molly's confession, she made millions of dollars in the eight years she opened the game. There is no doubt about this, considering that the Macau gambling king He Family has made a fortune and became a generation of giants, it can be seen that its profits are huge. However, if compared with Stanley Ho, the poker game played by Jasmine is like hiding in the chess and card room of a rich man's villa area. But this does not affect her in her early 30s, she can earn money every day, sits in a luxury apartment, and has a full-time chauffeur to pick up and go in and out of her daily life.
But before all this allowed her to become a legend of a generation, she died and quit. She was first targeted by the Russian mafia, then arrested by the FBI, her assets were frozen, and she was prosecuted by the procuratorate, who wanted to put her in jail.
The point is, she still doesn't know what's wrong? It’s been more than two years since I’ve been washing my hands in a golden pot, and they all say that the police always come late. Is the speed of the FBI turning over the old accounts too slow?
So well-known American screenwriter Alan Sorkin bought the film copyright of the book, adapted the script and filmed it himself, and made his directorial debut, which was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay at the 90th Academy Awards this year. (Applause to you...)
Before the gambling game, Jasmine was nurtured by her father as a seed player in the Olympic skiing event. She had no childhood, only skiing, skiing, and skiing. At the age of 13, unfortunately, he suffered from acute scoliosis, and the spine was bent to 63 degrees. In the end, he underwent a seven-hour operation before saving his life. The doctor has made it clear that it is not suitable for skiing, especially aerobatic skiing. But a year later, she was on the ski slopes again. Apparently, she has a "fake dad".
But when she was 20 years old, in the qualifiers for the Olympic Games, the tragedy happened again. Because of a protruding pine branch on the track, she rose up and flew out of the field. When she landed from the air, it hit her again. Row of metal steel columns to fix the spine.
Skiing career came to an abrupt end.
But before competing, she also passed the Harvard Law School entrance exam, giving her another life option. But before enrolling in school, she defied her father's order, applied for a one-year suspension of school, and went to Los Angeles to try to recover from the psychological shock caused by the failure of skiing. The result of willfulness was that her father reduced her financial support.
Before embarking on another life, Molly lived on a friend's couch and worked weekly as a cocktail salesman at a Hollywood bar until she met Dean, an investor who was privately in debt. Almost bankrupt vulgar man.
Molly goes to his office during the day and earns an extra $450 a week. Although the so-called office is actually only the two of them. Molly handles everything Dean arranges, from making coffee, buying meals, and picking up dry cleaning, to drawing spreadsheets and arranging organizational meetings. It's like Dean paid a share of money and hired three jasmines, a nanny, a housekeeper, and a secretary.
Poverty can limit not only your imagination, but also your mobility! At this time, the impoverished Jasmine still had nothing to do with Hollywood's drunken underground celebrity poker game.
Until one day, Dean suddenly threw her the names and phone numbers of nine people and asked her to notify and arrange the game that night.
The game is played in the Cobra Lounge, and every Tuesday night, the first buy-in is $10,000, and the blinds are $50 and $100.
Soon nine people arrived as promised with a large amount of cash. Molly finds out that they are all famous and rich people in the world. Those halo figures who used to only live on TV sets or in newspapers and magazines have now stepped down from the altar. Please imagine the turbulence in Jasmine's heart when she was only 20 years old at the time. Among the nine are movie stars, directors, rappers, boxers, business tycoons and more. Among them, Player X, the star, was not very fond of Dean, but he and Jasmine had a good chat in private.
The smart Jasmine is keenly aware of the immeasurable benefits in the game.
Sitting not far from the poker table, she prepared them drinks and fruits, recorded and exchanged the chips at the poker table, and at the same time googled all the slang words that appeared in the mouths of those people.
She is studying in secret.
The game ended at 3:30 in the morning. She made $3,000 in tips alone that night.
After that, Player X becomes a regular in the hand. His famous saying is that money won is more interesting than money earned. To live is to beat others and take their money.
Tsk tsk tsk...why don't you go to heaven.
From the gambler's mouth, Jasmine learned that everyone is proud of playing cards with the big star player X.
The Cobra Lounge is Dean's, but the hand is dominated by Player X.
So Jasmine began to cooperate with Player X, responsible for finding fish for him, a rich rookie who could play but not very well. Molly contacted former bar and other commercial casino employees, offered them a sizable draw, then screened and invited the right people to the Cobra Lounge.
This is not only a poker game, but also a gathering of top figures from various industries in the world. They play poker and gamble for money, and they talk about industry news and communicate with each other. For this job, Jasmine worked for three years and earned $58,000. Until her boss, Dean, got a red-eyed loss at the poker game.
That's right, Dean, as the first organizer, has always been involved in it, but Dean, who has nothing to do with 9 out of 10 bets, intends to take his advice from the only employee, Jasmine.
Dean proposes not to pay Molly the $450 salary for the office, although Molly will continue to be his assistant, helping him with various personal chores. Otherwise, Jasmine will also lose her job in the poker game. After Jasmine's protest was ineffective, she decided to make plans for her own future.
She went to a fancy hotel to rent a suite and started building her own poker game.
She does not participate in gambling, as before, she is only responsible for organizing games and providing drinks and other venue services. In view of the relationship she and Player X had accumulated before, Player X stayed with her as a resident customer, and at the same time, relying on the influence of star Player X, there was no shortage of players in Jasmine's poker game.
Before long, however, Player X proposed that Molly raise her first buy-in to $50,000 with blinds between $250 and $500.
Jasmine had to go "fishing" again, looking for potential users with more money. This time, there are "Rotten Brad", because his card skills are too bad, and "Harlan", a cautious player, who was dug by Player X from a commercial casino.
Facts have proved that the ultimate purpose of Rotten Brad's poker game is not to lose money, he is accumulating contacts and attracting clients to his hedge fund. And Harlan is another winning general after Player X.
On the night of the accident, the new Harlan had managed to triple his 50,000 stake until he met Bad Brad. Harlan didn't know Bad Brad before, so in the final matchup of only two people. , Harlan accidentally lost to Rotten Brad, the amount is more than 40,000 US dollars.
People often walk by the river, how can there be no wet shoes. Even if he loses 40,000, Harlan still wins. Harlan, who seldom fails, is deeply stimulated.
Unwilling, he fought at the poker table day and night, trying to win back the $40,000 he lost, but he ended up losing $1.2 million.
I only enjoy the joy of winning money. I never thought that the present world would come so quickly.
Obviously Harlan is not a giant or a Hollywood superstar, and he can't come up with $1.2 million. But two weeks later, he gave Molly a bank check for $1.2 million.
It was loaned to him by Player X.
The condition is that 50% of Harlan's win at the poker table belongs to Player X, and the loss is borne by himself. Like the first time she knew the true face of Player X, Jasmine felt that Harlan would never be able to escape from Player X's palm in her entire life. Eventually the two had a big fight.
Molly and Player X parted ways because of Harlan, or exactly, Player X kicked Molly out of the game. Different road non-phase plan.
Most of the players came for the big star player X. It may also be a good experience to be able to play cards and gamble with well-known celebrities with superb poker skills. There may be a lot of people waiting to lose money to him.
Local tyrants chase stars, rich and casual.
Losing Jasmine in Los Angeles, she went to New York to develop. This time, she started with Playboys' playmates, wooed clients, and raised the entry barrier by $250,000. As the player's worth has increased, the problem has also changed.
First, Jasmine's pressure increased sharply, and she started taking sedatives and drugs. Then there were people in the poker game who used fake chips to make trouble. There were also a lot of players in the poker game, including real wealthy families, Russian gang members, and federal bureau informers. Obviously Jasmine was kept in the dark. Although they made a lot of money, they were even crazier, causing the total amount of gambling to continue to rise. At the same time, some of them were from wealthy and noble families, but they were limited by family trusts and didn't have much cash, so they could only get money from Jasmine. Applying for a loan here, in order to maintain the stability of the game, Jasmine had to extract 2% of the poker table profits, thus breaking the bottom line of the law.
U.S. law says it's not illegal if you don't profit from the game. At this time, Jasmine was already on the opposite side of the law.
New York makes Molly's worth skyrocketing. At the same time, the arrest of "Rotten Brad" in Los Angeles sends Molly downhill.
The hedge fund of "Rotten Brad" was eventually characterized as a Ponzi scheme. Brad put the money that customers put on him, bought all villas, mansions, and luxury cars, and lived an extravagant and wealthy life. By the time his account was finally frozen by the FBI, Brad was left with just over $700. As smart as he is, he actively cooperated with the FBI investigation and confessed that a few years ago, under the inducement of Jasmine, he became addicted to gambling, and finally lost $5.2 million in an underground celebrity poker game run by Jasmine. In the end, Molly was subpoenaed and fined $500,000 to the government.
Immediately after, Jasmine was targeted by the Mafia, and was beaten at home alone near Christmas. At the same time, all the cash and high-end jewelry in the safe were kidnapped, adding up to more than 2 million US dollars.
Just when she was about to do one last fight and earn back some of the previous arrears, the FBI heard the news.
Jasmine put her hands away in a hurry and went home.
It wasn't until two years later, when she returned to Los Angeles hoping to start a new life, that the FBI arrested her and charged her with fraud and bribery.
The lawyer hopes that she can provide a list of poker players in order to gain the prosecutor's trust and in exchange for sentencing considerations and even freedom. Jasmine refused.
Jasmine denies the prosecutor's accusation, but admits her guilt, because she believes that her poker game has really caused the players who are trapped in it to lose their minds, and even separate their wives and children.
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