Celebrities were brought in to add glamour and, occasionally, serve as collateral damage.
Admitted card cheat Houston Curtis has written a book about founding the game with Maguire and how wild things became.
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.
As the movie depicts, Bloom started off as a cocktail waitress at L.
Tamara Beckwith Curtis claims Bloom was not the mastermind she purported to be and that she was primarily there to deflect attention so that he and Maguire could win millions without spooking their pals.
All models were 18 and over at the time of the creation of such depictions.