[5] A film adaptation of her book, Molly's Game, starring Jessica Chastain and directed by Aaron Sorkin, debuted in December 2017.
[3][12] She attended the University of Colorado Boulder, where she graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.
In 2004, Darin Feinstein, one of the co-owners of The Viper Room nightclub, was approached by actor Tobey Maguire about hosting a high-stakes poker game in the club's basement.
[15] In addition to Maguire, wealthy people, celebrities, and sports figures were known to frequent the games, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Alec Gores, Macaulay Culkin, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Alex Rodriguez, Nelly, Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Phil Ivey, Rick Salomon, and Andy Beal.
[14] In 2011, one of the games Bloom had been associated with in Los Angeles became part of a bankruptcy investigation into a Ponzi scheme run by Bradley Ruderman.
After Ruderman's conviction, bankruptcy trustees discovered that he had been using the fraudulent hedge fund to pay gambling debts to Bloom and a number of players.
[2] She was sentenced the next May to one year of probation, 200 hours of community service, and forfeiture of $125,000; U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman found that she had played a minor role in the larger gambling operation that did not warrant prison time.
[24] Beginning in 2022, Bloom was an executive producer and the host of two seasons of Torched, a podcast series exploring controversial Olympic events and other sports stories.