The details of Player X's petty actions are fairly accurate to Bloom's memoir, except for one detail: the film never reveals the identity of who exactly Player X is.

In the book Molly's Game, it's never a secret that this nefarious gambler is none other than Spider-Man actor Tobey Maguire.

Although Bloom kept the identities of many of her regulars a secret, by the time she wrote Molly's Game, Maguire had already been publicly identified as a member of Bloom's underground poker circuit thanks to a lawsuit.

Although Maguire's bad behavior made him one of the most notable figures in Bloom's memoir, he wasn't the only celeb to get mentioned by name in the book, but not the film.

Behind very private doors, Hollywood elite like Tobey Maguire , Matt Damon , Leonardo DiCaprio , and Ben Affleck , pro athletes, financiers, and billionaires turned up at the underground poker games Molly organized.

She said in an interview:. So people were burning through that, a lot of times in the first 30 minutes. Bloom's memoir about her experiences, Molly's Game , was published in A film adaptation of the book, also called Molly's Game , written and directed by Aaron Sorkin , premiered at the Toronto Film Festival on September 8, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

This article is about the poker entrepreneur and author. For the fictional character in Ulysses , see Molly Bloom.

Loveland , Colorado , U. Retrieved New York Daily News. In researching how accurate Molly's Game is, we discovered that as the game began to get out of control, so did Molly's life.

She ended up addicted to drugs. Her poker customers came to include men from the Russian mob. She often found herself being stiffed cash she was owed.

This prompted her to take a percentage of the pot in order to operate as the bank, a move that caught the attention of the Feds. I was essentially loaning them money, guaranteeing that money.

I had to figure out - I had to do background checks and vet them to see if they were good for it. And I was getting stiffed a lot.

I had to write big checks for people that didn't pay. So I started taking a percentage of the pot like Vegas does. She's well-aware that things could have gone differently for her, and so she's committed to making this second chance count.

Particularly after pleading guilty to a federal sentence, not knowing what consequences, long-term, that was going to hold for me.

Having such exorbitant debt and no money. I have a network, and I have a lot of lessons. Bloom told Vulture that, even with a hit movie on her hands, she doesn't see a future in Hollywood.

But this time around, I'm certain it has to have meaning," she said. The meaning, it turns out, is to help other women succeed in business.