The Foundry

Tom Goldstein takes his poker operation from Alec Gores’s Beverly Hills mansion to a showdown with Tang Hao in Manila. Millions are on the table.

Tom Goldstein had a losing reputation and access to billionaire poker games. Behind him, a team of professionals was preparing him to win.

In public, he was the country’s top Supreme Court litigator. In private, he won close to $100 million from opponents at the highest-stakes poker games in the world. His double life cost him everything.