I know I can't be as eloquent as BJ, Seebs, Huff and others have been, but will certainly try my best to add my tribute. All of the stories and tributes that have appeared online since I saw Seebs' blog yesterday afternoon keep bringing me to tears. You know you're respected in the poker community if posters on 2+2 don't say a bad word about you or start some sort of inane flame war.
It was Shronk who asked me if I wanted to help moderate these forums last year, and I'll always be thankful for that. As others have said, he was so dedicated to making this site a success, and it's going to be extremely hard to fill that huge hole that he left behind.
We were going to work on an article together (he would write it up, I'd do the statistical stuf) for Bluff regarding the WPT that he hoped would be my chance to break into the poker media. He had the drive and desire that was so greatly lacking in me to follow his desires and actually make it happen. I was digging thru the database and would hit him up on AIM with some random stat and the excitement he got about it just shone through. I was eventually going to get some stuff together to get the article in motion when I saw Seebs' post on Pokerroad and it stopped me dead in my tracks.
It's going to be hard not to AIM him about some poker story, or hope for him to AIM me something. Not knowing he'll be there in front of the computer talking with the chatroom when a PRR show is being recorded or the planned pro player chats just makes me so damn sad and depressed.
I'll miss you Shronk, way more than you'll ever know.
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