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Okay folks, as you know I'm in Monte Carlo for the fantastic EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo, working on the rather magnificent PokerStars blog. Last night Dusk Till Dawn held its outrageous party, and the naughty Suffolk Punch was there to take some rather decent pics. Special well done to Paul Zimbler, Simon Nowab and their team for laying it on.

If you are ready for Bill Chen with his shirt off (please sit down), Simon Trumper and DevilFish, the Hendon Mob, Joe Hachem and me, Marcel Luske with pretty girls (nothing new in that) and some PokerStars lovelies, then scroll down...

In no particular order....


Here's poker pro Bill Chen, author of The Mathematics of Poker. It all adds up to a rather good night out.


Now marvel at World Series of Poker 2005 champion Simon "Suffolk Punch" Young, right, with some Australian fan called Joe Hachem and Courtney, of PokerStars.


Something fishy here... yup, it's Dave "Devilfish" Ulliot, right, and Dusk Till Dawn's pro Simon "Aces" Trumper.


Brothers in Arms... Here's Barny and Ross Boatman, one half of The Hendon Mob. Don't mess with them.


And here's another Hendon Mobster, Ram Vaswani, left, with Simon "Chubbs" (sorry) Nowab of Dusk Till Dawn.


Lady time - this is Ali, left, and Tamar of PokerStars. The EPT would not exist without Tamar.


Strictly speaking, the EPT would not exist without this man, founder John Duthie, pictured here in a high-powered meeting with board members. John's an excellent player, and loves his big pairs (groan). He's had a haircut, too, no longer looking like a hairy gymnast


Erm, Bill Chen again!


Marcel Luske illustrates the downside of professional poker.


Norway's finest: EPT Dortmund winner Andreas "Mad as a sack of whippets" Hoivold and EPT Barcelona winner Bjorn-Erik Glenne.


John Shipley showing why he's one of England's top pro poker players (or auditioning as a pole dancer).


Totally gratuitous Dusk Till Dawn totty (sorry, Mrs Suffolk Punch).


Ram Vaswani and Noah Boeken (this one was for the lady readers of this blog).


Ahem, it's Bill Chen again.


Dusk Till Dawn pro Kevin O'Connell, with stars in his eyes.


This is Ed and Brad, colleagues of mine on the PokerStars blog this week, with some poker player they seem to call Fish.


The youngster of the European Poker Tour Mickey Wernick (left, obviously), with Blue Square's Jonathan Raab.


"Snoopy", an uber blogger for Blonde Poker, and John Shipley, wannabe pole dancer.


Jonathan Raab again - also now a wannabe pole dancer.


Karen Birks, events boss of PokerStars, without whom the EPT's would be bland, and who is a far better pole dancer than both Shipley and Raab.


Mind you, EPT media controller Mad Harper is pretty good on the pole, too. Go, girl!


Poker pro Mel Judah looking very sensible, unlike everyone else in this blog.


And here's Tori Coxon, who looks after many of the press here on trips, organising interviews etc at the various EPT events.


Erm, these two work for PokerStars. They were only posing on my instructions, obviously. But for more pics of the pair, email me with pledges of £100 and I'll send you the negatives.


Totally off topic, a cute photo I took of Ram Vaswani and his lovely daughter, Holly, during the EPT main event today. Ram is clearly impressed with the number of chips she managed to rake in before level four.

Time for one more Bill Chen shot? Okay... but this was from early in the evening...


Well, that's it for now.

Pip! Pip!