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Like, she's not about to bark like a seal for a tip and be humiliated.

And then, allegedly, Toby gets all offended and pissed off and he storms out of the game.

And eventually, he's so pissed off that he convinces the other players to move locations to another rich guy's house away from Molly, which ultimately ruins her whole operation.

However, like I said, Molly is a hustler.

She's not gonna let guys like Toby stand in her way.

So in 2009, she moves from Los Angeles over to New York City.

And there she just reboots her whole operation.

She sets up new high stakes poker games at nice hotels around the city.

She starts bringing in new clientele and she continues to make millions of dollars off of all of this.

This is going really well for her.

and she feels like she could do this job forever.

Until... Until Molly decides to not only set up the games and host them, but to become the house, meaning she's fronting some of the money and taking a percentage of the winning pot.

And up until this point, she was only making money off of the tips, but now she's sort of acting like the casino.

Once she introduces this aspect to the games she's running, this officially makes her whole operation illegal.

Not only that, but she unknowingly isn't vetting the players that she lets into her games well enough.

And she ends up accidentally letting some guys play who have ties to the Russian mob.

And on top of that, I guess the Italian mob hears about her operation and how much money she's making, and now they want in on her business as well, and they want her to pay them, like, a protection fee or something.

And Molly's like, nah, I'm not going to do all that.

But then one night in 2010, they decide to make her pay.

So she's at her apartment, and someone knocks on the door.