It is 10:00am

I am heading over to the Mandalay Bay with hopes of shooting some last minute fish in the Poker Room.

This website has always had the ability to automatically post images via email, but I have never used it.

Today, I shall try it.

The only caveat is that the camera that takes the pictures needs to have Internet access. This means that only a cellphone camera will do the job. And as we all know, cellphone cameras have poor image quality … so expect the photos to be terrible, and barely distinguishable.

I am taking my trusty PPC-6700 with me, and I will snap-and-send at random intervals.

It is an experiment. If it goes down in flames, you’ll be able to point, laugh, and say “What a douchebag!”.

Not that you don’t say that anyway, but you’ll have yet another reason.

And if it works, hey, maybe I’ll do it more often.

Will this be interesting? Probably not.

But I’m going to do it anyway.

Grainy cellphone photos should start appearing below until I get to the Mandalay Bay Poker Room. If they don’t, then it didn’t work. If it does work … enjoy:

Update: Looking at the site through Pocket Internet Explorer, it appears to have worked, although the pictures look even worse than I thought they would. Next time, I am bringing the spare battery. I have 10% remaining, and am shutting it off in case I need it for later. I stopped at the MGM to talk with some folks and check out the action, so it took awhile to get to my destination. It also rained on me on the way over here. I am heading off to NYNY now, then back to the MGM, then to the Wynn. Crowds are decent today, there seems to be more people here than last weekend, but crowds are still noticeably off from last July.

BTW, I tripled my buy-in. The sun shines on a dog’s ass every now and then. There is a definite increase in locals in the room, and we recognized and acknowledged each other in the usual subtle manner, so Mandalay is not the fishbowl it once was … but there are still plenty of “going home this afternoon” tourists who will bet the stack on a pair of 6’s rather than wait for a hand. That’s why I love this room on Sundays.