Justin Shronk veel te jong overleden

Door Rik Klein Entink, geplaatst op woensdag 22 april 2009, 13:00. Views: 2.

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De meeste pokerfans zal de naam Justin Shronk niet zo heel veel zeggen, maar hij was achter Cardplayer, PokerNews.com en tot gisteren PokerRoad de drijvende kracht en technicus.

Zondag is Justin op de leeftijd van 27 jaar overleden. Shronk, zoals hij genoemd werd was producer bij PokerRoad Radio. Een programma met als hosts Joe Sebok, Gavin Smith en Ali Nejad.

Shronk was net uit het ziekenhuis ontslagen na behandeld te zijn voor Pancreatitis, maar wat nu precies zijn overlijden heeft veroorzaakt is onduidelijk.

Gavin Smith maakt het nieuws bekend aan alle aanwezigen vlak voor aanvang van dag 3 van de World Poker Tour Championship in het Bellagio.

Joe Seebok, vriend en collega van Shronk, op zijn blog: "The poker community, and myself, are a little worse off today then we were before Shronk's passing.  I hope wherever he is, he is making absurd poker plays that I have tried to teach him will never work...those are always the most fun anyway."

Toen ik voor het eerst naar de EPT afreisde met Dimitri 'Scriptdude' Tholen voor livereporting was Shronk een prima collega en hielp hij ons waar hij maar kon.

Rust zacht Shronk!

 

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Triest nieuws idd. Ik ken Shronk vooral als het manusje van alles voor CardPlayers The Circuit en later PokerRoad. He will be missed!
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De blog van Joe Seebok:

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The poker community lost a brother this past Sunday when Justin Shronk passed away. It seems he passed from natural causes, and was not in any kind of pain. He had different health problems that he wrestled with throughout the last few years, so I would guess it was from one of these that he succumbed.


I knew Justin, or Shronk as he is affectionately known in the poker world, in several disparate capacities...intern, creative collaborator, friend, employee, and recently, radio producer. He had stepped into that producer role with 'PokerRoad Radio' and there couldn't have been someone who knew how to make it move better than he did. He had been there as our first radio intern back in our old days of the show, so he had his finger squarely on the pulse of what we were trying to achieve from a fan's point of view. This was fitting as he came into the poker world, first and foremost, as a fan, and that is how I shall remember him.

Shronk was a fan of so much in this life. He was easily one of the most excitable people that I have ever known. Whether he was telling me to check out a new television show he watched religiously, rapping with me about some obscure band that we both liked, going back and forth about some episode of "Scrubs" that we both loved, or talking poker hands, poker multimedia, or really anything poker...Shronk was the consummate fan. Always excited and always moving and talking.

He loved new media and I think, in many respects, he was able to live some of his dream by being a part of it in poker, whether that was for CardPlayer, PokerNews, or most recently right here at PokerRoad. He was an integral part of our family and we will miss him with all of our hearts. It had been our honor to call him a co-worker, and more importantly a friend.

The poker community, and myself, are a little worse off today then we were before Shronk's passing. I hope wherever he is, he is making absurd poker plays that I have tried to teach him will never work...those are always the most fun anyway.

We will miss you, Shronkles...

-Joe Sebok
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