Key ideas from Molly Bloom

• Molly Bloom ran high-stakes poker games in LA and New York, with buy-ins reaching $250,000 and $10 million on the table during 2008's financial crisis
• Toby Maguire allegedly took over Bloom's LA game by leveraging his celebrity status and charging $200 to rent a Shuffle Master machine worth $17,000
• Bloom refused FBI offers to become a confidential informant against billionaires and politicians, choosing prison risk over betraying clients
• The Russian mob put a gun in Bloom's mouth and robbed her after she refused to give them a piece of her game
• Bloom absorbed a $250,000 loss when a player who could afford to pay stiffed the game, maintaining trust by writing the check herself
• Aaron Sorkin told Bloom after hearing her pitch: "I've never met someone so down on their luck and so full of themselves" before agreeing to write Molly's Game