Sentences with phrase «stakes poker games for»

She put her entrepreneurial skills to good use and eventually found her way into running high - stakes poker games for Hollywood's elite for eight years before the FBI brought her down.

Summary: MOLLY»S GAME is the true story of Molly Bloom a beautiful, young, Olympic - class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high - stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested in the middle of the night by 17 FBI agents wielding automatic weapons.

Molly's Game is the true story of Molly Bloom a beautiful, young, Olympic - class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high - stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested in the middle of the night by 17 FBI agents wielding automatic weapons.

Molly Bloom a beautiful, young, Olympic - class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high - stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested in the middle of the night by 17 FBI agents wielding automatic weapons.

The answer to that question lies in Molly's Game, a biographical drama about Molly Bloom, who ran a high - stakes poker game for rich people, famous people, powerful people, and eventually dangerous criminals.

Molly's Game (R for profanity, drug use and some violence) Jessica Chastain plays the title character in a biopic chronicling the rise and fall of Molly Bloom, the Olympic skier - turned - gambling operator who ran a high - stakes poker game for a decade until the FBI brought down the operation.

Molly's Game is the true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic - class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high - stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested in the middle of the night by 17 FBI agents wielding automatic weapons.

Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut stars Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba in the true story of Molly Bloom, proprietor of Hollywood's most exclusive high - stakes poker game for a decade before being shut down by the FBI.

The film marks Sorkin's directorial debut and is based on the true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic - class skier who ran a high - stakes poker game for celebrities and business tycoons.

Jessica Chastain runs a high - stakes poker game for celebrities in the gripping first trailer for Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut, «Molly's Game.»

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Alongside our dice game, our offerings have recently expanded to provide our players with a number of poker rooms, some suited to beginners and some mid to high stakes games reserved for our VIPs.

The big gambling event for them is at a New Orleans casino, where they play in a high - stakes poker game.

This movie is based on the life of Molly Bloom, a former Olympic skier, who went on to make a career out of hosting poker games for big - stakes players.

Bloom was in the qualifying trials for freestyle skiing when she wiped out, a life - derailing accident that would send her down a very different path of hosting illegal high - stakes poker games, getting raided by the FBI, and writing a book about the whole affair.

Gerry, perceiving Curtis as a smiling good - luck charm, begs him to come along for a high - stakes poker game in New Orleans, for which the minimum buy - in is a cool $ 25 grand.

Molly's Game, about Molly Bloom, a former world - class skier who began running a high - stakes celebrity poker game, is also nominated for Best ScreenpGame, about Molly Bloom, a former world - class skier who began running a high - stakes celebrity poker game, is also nominated for Best Screenpgame, is also nominated for Best Screenplay.

The directorial debut for famed writer Aaron Sorkin is Molly's Game, a riveting tale of a former almost Olympic skier, Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain) who ran the biggest high - stakes poker game in both Los Angeles and New YGame, a riveting tale of a former almost Olympic skier, Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain) who ran the biggest high - stakes poker game in both Los Angeles and New Ygame in both Los Angeles and New York.

Molly's Game is the true story of the rise, fall and redemption of Molly Bloom, who by the age of 26 was dubbed the «Poker Princess» for organizing high - stakes poker games in Los Angeles and New York for movie stars, athletes, and rich businessPoker Princess» for organizing high - stakes poker games in Los Angeles and New York for movie stars, athletes, and rich businesspoker games in Los Angeles and New York for movie stars, athletes, and rich business men.

Joseph Gordon - Levitt appears in another vignette as Johnny, a reckless card shark, determined to infiltrate a high - stakes poker game run by a villainous senator (Powers Boothe, gloriously horrifying) with a shady past and a taste for cruelty.

This is Reynolds» seventh visit to the Park City, Utah fest, and this time around he's here in support of the latest film from the Half Nelson writing / directing team of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, about two gamblers heading to New Orleans for a high - stakes poker game.

The real - life story of a high - stakes poker organizer who got mixed up in a world of celebrities, Wall Street thugs, and mafia goons, Molly's Game has a lot going for it, not to mention a few things going against.

In the role of Molly Bloom for the movie «Molly's Game,» Jessica Chastain plays a woman navigating her way through the male - dominated world of high - stakes underground poker.

So they hit the road together, heading for a high - stakes poker game in New Orleans.

This has gone on for years and is the highest stake poker cash game.

In November Brad Pitt was said to be negotiating for a role in Cogan's Trade, which will adapt the George V. Higgins novel about Jackie Cogan, «a professional enforcer who investigates a heist that takes place during a high stakes poker game under protection of the mob.»

Poker online fans routinely site the popularity of Rounders in chat rooms, and high - stakes poker tournaments as the inspiration for getting them interested in the Poker online fans routinely site the popularity of Rounders in chat rooms, and high - stakes poker tournaments as the inspiration for getting them interested in the poker tournaments as the inspiration for getting them interested in the game.

The best of the four is Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's «Mississippi Grind,» starring Ben Mendeloshn and Ryan Reynolds as a pair of lovable loser gamblers going all - in on a gambling trip designed to earn the stake for an infamous poker game.

Molly Bloom was an Olympic - class skier before she became the go - to for the world's highest stakes poker game — for a decade before being arrested in the middle of the night.

Making his directorial debut with an adaptation of Molly Bloom's 2014 memoir about running a high - stakes poker game, Aaron Sorkin fills the script with smart (and improbably sassy) zingers, including this put - down, by Bloom's lawyer (Idris Elba), of the cover photo chosen by his client (Jessica Chastain) for her book:

Poker Night 2, sequel to Telltale's high - stakes poker game, is coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Steam for PC and Mac later this APoker Night 2, sequel to Telltale's high - stakes poker game, is coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Steam for PC and Mac later this Apoker game, is coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Steam for PC and Mac later this April.

It's the classic male poker game where you get away from the house and the family one evening a week and talk with the guys, so to speak, and have this amiable game for very low stakes.