Talk:Oliver Hudson

Poker section
Career:

"Hudson played in the 2005 World Series of Poker Main Event but experienced terrible luck, when he went broke on the very first hand, losing to 2003 runner-up Sam Farha (who had a better Full House than Hudson)."

Is this *really* so important that it deserves to be mentioned when talking about his career? Basically, it's just one poker hand with a mid bad beat involved, and Hudson is not a professional poker player, but an actor and his biography should state his acting career not his recreational gambling. The statement that Hudson "experienced terrible luck" isn't even totally accurate, because he made several mistakes playing that TT hand against Farha:

Hudson nearly min-re-raised (200 to 450) preflop out of position giving Farha tremendous odds to take a flop in position against an amateur with deep stacks behind. On the flop Hudson slowplayed, and then drastically overplayed his hand on the turn when he shoved over Farha's 1,3k raise to get his remaining 9k stack in w/ TT on a AATQ board. Because Hudson's last raise was such an overbet, it was surely not getting called by anything worse than aces full. Therefore it is not correct to say that he experienced terrible luck, when he instead played terribly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.113.114.242 (talk) 08:30, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Ethnicity
I fleshed out his ethnicity at bit. His mother is half Jewish and his father is half italian (sourced on their respective webpages). We also know that he has English and Scots Irish from an ancestor who died in 1800 and that his maternal grandfather was presbyterian. Perhaps we should pull out the Scots-Irish and English? Patapsco913 (talk) 11:45, 1 June 2012 (UTC)