While I was busy kibitzing most of the tournament, my friend Joanie played 2 sessions every day except the 2nd Sunday.  Then she showed me that she's an even better kibitzer than I am when she kibitzed Marin Marinov's team for 3 matches on Sunday and he blitzed all 3 matches!  If she had only kibitzed him for one more match his team might have won the event (they finished 5th and scored more VPs in those 3 matches than the other 5 + carryover combined.)

Wednesday

Sitout first half (team went 1-3 and were sitting 2nd last)

2-2 scoring a few VPs above avg in 2nd half but not enough to Q

Thursday

GNT squad disappeared so ...
Kibitzed Hamman some and Pollack some in GNT

Friday

Played KO's won 2 matches

Saturday

Lost semi-finals, played solid, partner spotty. 

Sunday

Nobody with a pulse at partnership desk so went sightseeing.  Walked all the way to the South end of the strip and back to the Sahara (where we stayed until Tuesday.)

Spingold team fell apart at least minute, too late to find replacements.

Played with Peter Clark in the IMP Pairs side game.  We had the most error-free set I can ever remember us having (I blew a red downtrick on the last board.)  +25 was good for a section 2nd.  I don't know how much the winners our way were paying their opponents but they finished with +81.  I don't think we could have duplicated that result if you'd given us the hand records ahead of time.

Monday

Entered KO's opposite first round of Spingold.  Good opportunity for relatively easy monsterpoints.  Pard made weird decisions (that didn't work) opponents made weird decisions (that worked) and I was better than most but less than flawless.  If I'm flawless we squeak out a close win.  Story of my life.

Got guilt-tripped at last minute into playing side Swiss with same team minus weird-decision-making but generally competent partner plus intermediate-minus social butterfly.  As often is the case, with nothing at stake I made no mistakes that cost, but even that was only good enough for a 2-2 finish.

Tuesday

Kibitzed Demuy-Delmonte in round of 64 of Spingold.

Wednesday

Kibitzed Demuy-Delmonte in round of 32 against Nystrom-Bertheau (Mahaffey)

Thursday

Almost played with Sondra Blank, but I loathe Fast Pairs (the National Event starting that day) and I didn't want to be in charge of finding another pair for the mixed B-A-M teams (the other National Event starting that day.)  Kibitzed Vince and Ish against Zia and Hamman in the round of 16.

Friday

Ran into Cole Powell, an attorney from the Bay Area who I play with or on teams with every few years or so.  We put a compact KO squad together (each of us wanted to play in the National Swiss starting Saturday) and against surprisingly good opponents in 2 of the 4 rounds managed to sneak to victory in the event.  Agreed to play with Gary Brown, a teammate from that team, in the next day's National Swiss.  Left him in charge.

Saturday

Met Gary and bought an entry for the NABC swiss (he said we were playing with Cole & pard.)  Cole & pard had other ideas.  I wasn't in the mood for pairs.

Played with Joanie, Kevin and Jeffrey in the evening.  Saw Bill Gates and Warren Buffett walk by on their way out of the playing area while we were in the middle of a hand in the last match.  Resisted urge to leap up from table and chase after them.  Boys were very excited with the win.

Sunday

Introduced myself to Bill Gates when I saw him by the vendors with a couple of his teammates before game time.

Entered Swiss with Gary.  Wouldn't change a single bidding/play decision I made all day except for a minor technical carding error on the penultimate hand that 99% of partners wouldn't punish me for.  Unfortunately, my partner was one of the 1%.  So we finish out of the money instead of 15th.