Aaron Sorkin, the director of the film, “Molly’s Game,” say his movie is not a poker movie. After watching the movie, I agreed with his view, but the poker scenes shown in the movie are realistic — because the actors in the movie played for real money.

On many days, for a half hour at the end of shooting, the poker pro players hired to play bit roles in the film was seen competing for a cash prize while the cameras rolled. Whoever had the maximum chips at the end of that half hour used to get a check from Sorkin — though he didn’t declare how much the amount was — and Sorkin got this scene for his movie and used it in his film, the film is going to release nationally earlier this month.
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