Bob and Petra Hamman and Sharon Osberg are expected to host bridge tables in the mall outside Borsheim's at Berkshire's 2002 annual meeting weekend.

The expectation is that Bob Hamman, Petra Hamman and Sharon Osberg would host bridge tables at Berkshire's 2002 annual meeting weekend (around the start of May 2002). TRUE: all three hosted or played at the bridge tables during the 2002 meeting weekend. MOSTLY TRUE: bridge tables were held and two of the three named people hosted them. MOSTLY FALSE: only one of the three hosted. FALSE: positive evidence (e.g., meeting coverage or Berkshire's later letters) shows that none of them hosted, or that no bridge tables were held that weekend.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 Bridge Adventures: Omaha With Buffett, Gates, Hamman, and Osberg gnyba.org (blog post by a bridge player) · 7 May 2020

   “Every year, they hold a shareholder bridge event. It’s completely casual, shuffle-and-play bridge right after a boozy brunch.”

2. E2 Bridge Adventures: Omaha With Buffett, Gates, Hamman, and Osberg gnyba.org (blog post by a bridge player) · 7 May 2020

   “Bob Hamman introduced himself as a shareholder who does some IT consulting, giving us his business card.”

3. E3 2002 Annual Meeting Information Berkshire Hathaway Inc. · 6 May 2002 Own record

   “The 2002 Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Annual Shareholders Meeting was held in Omaha, Nebraska on Saturday May 4, 2002.”

4. E4 2004ltr.pdf Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (Chairman's letter, 2004 annual report) Own record

   “Additionally, we will have Bob Hamman and Sharon Osberg, two of the world’s top bridge experts, available to play with our shareholders on Sunday afternoon.”

5. E5 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting 2002 Transcript good-investing.net (third-party transcript)

   “Of that number, 1,103,455 Class A shares and 5,260,231 Class B shares are represented at this meeting by proxies returned through Thursday evening, May 2nd.”

E3 confirms that the 2002 annual meeting took place on May 4, 2002, and E5 is a transcript of that meeting, but neither one mentions bridge tables, the Hammans or Sharon Osberg. E1 and E2 place Bob Hamman at a shareholder bridge event in Omaha, but they don't say which year it was, and they don't mention Petra Hamman. E4 is from the chairman's letter in the 2004 annual report and describes plans for a later meeting weekend, not 2002. No evidence shows whether the three named people hosted tables during the 2002 weekend.