The Power Of Poker Analysis

According to Poker Players Research, about 40 million people regularly play poker and 15 million people in total play online for money. In Jeremy Marks article “The Power of Poker”, he depicts the actual life of a poker player instead the stereotypical professional poker player lifestyle filled with drugs and money problems as instead a life that involves none of those things using his own personal experiences. But on the other hand, in Lauren Patrizi’s “My College Addiction”, she illustrates all the negative effects and consequences that come with the playing poker not only in a physical tournament, but also on online gambling sites. Although both authors express their ethos, pathos, and logos very well, Marks strong logical reasoning and

In “The Power of Poker”, Marks explains that the stereotypical idea that poker players have “poor money management skills” is false and that in order to be a successful poker player, you need to know “want in a hand”, “how much money you have, how much money your opponent has, and the amount in the pot” (153). Marks is illustrating the audience this to explain that in making great financial choices, you need to be able to adapt to certain changes that might come up and being able to have strategy for these changes which you learn in playing poker. This quotation gives the audience a explanation of how logical playing poker is for the majority of Americans. Although Patrizi uses sound logos in “My College Addiction”, by arguing that colleges educate “students to prevent these practices” like distributing condoms and “hazing prohibitions” that could help them have better money management skills instead of gambling (155). Because playing online poker in college has shown to lead kids into more debt, there showed more services and down to eliminate this sort of occurrence to happening. This gives the audience the reasoning to believe colleges and university to put more effort in helping their students toward these bad