Increasingly successful, as Molly gains more money, she is pressured by Player X to raise the stakes. Player X, along with many others, leaves Dean's games to play at Molly's. Additionally, she contacts club and casino employees to spread the word about her games. She rents a hotel penthouse and hires a staff. Molly, having contacts through years of running the game, creates her own poker games. Dean, upon seeing that Molly is becoming increasingly independent in running the games, attempts to control, and then fires her.

In particular, she hopes to please the most successful player, a film star named Player X, by attracting new players to the game. Initially unfamiliar with poker, Molly quickly learns how to appeal to the players for tips. Molly earns large sums of money in tips alone. Many famous and wealthy individuals, including movie stars, investment bankers, and sports players, are involved in Dean's game. She becomes his office manager, and is soon involved in running his underground poker games at ' The Cobra Lounge'. Becoming a bottle service waitress at a club, she soon meets Dean, an ostentatious but unsuccessful real estate developer. Instead of attending law school immediately, Molly takes a year off and moves to LA. In a qualifying event for the 2002 Winter Olympics, she is severely injured, ending her career.

Molly Bloom is a world-class mogul skier with Olympic aspirations, thanks to years of enforced training from her overbearing father. The film earned Chastain a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress – Drama, while Sorkin earned nominations for his screenplay at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, Writers Guild of America Awards, and BAFTA Awards. Molly's Game received positive reviews, with particular praise for Sorkin's screenplay, as well as Chastain and Elba's performances, with the former being considered one of the best of her career by some critics. The film premiered on September 8, 2017, at the Toronto International Film Festival, and began a limited theatrical release in the United States on December 25, 2017, by STX Entertainment, before expanding wide on January 5, 2018, and grossed $59 million worldwide. Principal photography began in November 2016 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The film follows Bloom (Chastain), who becomes the target of an FBI investigation after the underground poker empire she runs for Hollywood celebrities, athletes, business tycoons, and the Russian mob is exposed. It stars Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Jeremy Strong, Chris O'Dowd, Joe Keery, Brian D'Arcy James, and Bill Camp. Molly's Game is a 2017 American biographical crime drama film written and directed by Aaron Sorkin (in his directorial debut), based on the 2014 memoir of the same name by Molly Bloom.

Teen Girl Talk by Molly Douglas