RIP Justin Shronk
I was informed earlier tonight that poker media guy Justin Shronk passed away. He was only 27 (basically my age) which is both shocking and really scary. I think I first met Justin at EPT Monte Carlo in 2007 when he was working for PokerNews.com. He was the video guy for Tiffany Michelle. I also talked with him a bunch at the Nice airport because we were flying out at the same time at the end of the event. I later hung out with him a bit at the 2007 WPT Championship a few weeks later when I was taking some pictures for BLUFF. And of course at the 2007 WSOP. I don’t think I’ve seen him in person since summer 2007. Either way, really really nice guy and I’m not saying that because of what happened too him. I don’t really know the cause of death.
Out of curiosity I searched through my email for messages from him. Other than him following me on Twitter (totally pointless because I don’t really use Twitter right now) I found the following messages from last summer:
Hey,
Just read about the threatening. That is MESSED UP man.
100,000% OFF the record. It will not appear in anything I promise – can you gimme some details? who? when? how?
-shronk
He’s talking about when I received a threat in the UB investigation last year. While I know he was, somewhat, looking for a scoop on the story (I think he was working with PokerRoad at the time) despite my potential comments being off-the-record, you can also tell that he actually cares when something bad happens to someone else. And I didn’t even really know him that well. After I told him I couldn’t really say anything at the time he replied:
Understandable. Hopefully one day you’ll be able to.
If there’s anything we can do, definitely let us know. Be safe.
-shronk
Once again, a very nice guy and always gracious in his dealings with me. I did do an interview with PokerRoad which was the one and only interview that I did related to the UB scandal. I didn’t really want to be too associated with the scandal and I was also extremely busy with work stuff at the time. But I thought I should do one interview to get my story out there and I went with PokerRoad partially because of Justin and the respect I had for his work.
Very sad day, rest in peace Justin.
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