Wednesday, Feb 4, 2009 Steve Martin's Bizarre Online Poker Experience

Comedy legend Steve Martin told a crazy story about online poker involving sleeping pills on the Letterman show.

The star of classic comedies such as "Roxanne" and "¡Three Amigos!" revealed to David Letterman in Monday night's "Late Show" that he used to play online poker back "when it was legal" (it still is legal in the United States by the way!).

After one late session Martin, who at the time was travelling and doing shows, needed an Ambien to go to sleep. This resulted in a surprisingly profitable "Ambien experience" for the comedian, as you can see below:

Note: You can read more about Ambien here.

 

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