Nesli O'Hare

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DrCue'sProtege

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ok, anybody know what happened to Nesli? i remember watching her on the ESPN Ultimate 9-Ball Challenge several years ago, and i ran across her at the 2002 BCA Open in Las Vegas. found out she moved to Indianapolis a few years back, but never hear anything about her.

anybody know what she's up to? she still play? i always thought she was quite sexy, great New England accent.

DCP
 
DrCue'sProtege said:
ok, anybody know what happened to Nesli? i remember watching her on the ESPN Ultimate 9-Ball Challenge several years ago, and i ran across her at the 2002 BCA Open in Las Vegas. found out she moved to Indianapolis a few years back, but never hear anything about her.

anybody know what she's up to? she still play? i always thought she was quite sexy, great New England accent.

DCP
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New England? You mean New York accent! The woman is from Staten Island. Funny, I used to see her in the Manhattan rooms all the time, too. The little I know of her, I've heard that she's always held multiple interests (she does have a career outside of pool). I'm certain she'll pop up again when she gets the bug.
 
I'm not really sure what happened to Nesli. I met her a few years back at a tournament in Virginia and haven't heard much about her since. She was actually one of the first pros I saw play, and I was awestruck.

Amanda
 
DCP,
Nesli is alive and well in Indy. As you probably know she has an advanced degree (I think Math and Computer Science from NYU), and has a really good job. I believe she does not play very much pool at all; but she usually appears at Jeanette Lee's benefits, and she participates in the snooker league at Airport Billiards.

Though I do not believe she is happy with the state of her pool game, it is still AWESOME. I observed her one day shooting long shots (8 or 9 feet) down the rail (object ball near but not touching the long rail) on the snooker table - with great force, pocketing almost everything. I told her how impressive these shots were, and she responded, "naaah, they're pretty easy once you learn to stroke the cueball straight." I wondered how many thousand hours I would have to practice before I found those shots "easy."

I was able to play a game of 8-ball with her at one of the benefits, I won and felt like I should retire from the game on top - she plays very well.

P.S. - it certainly sounds like a "New Yaaawk" accent to me.
 
Williebetmore said:
DCP,
Nesli is alive and well in Indy. As you probably know she has an advanced degree (I think Math and Computer Science from NYU), and has a really good job. I believe she does not play very much pool at all; but she usually appears at Jeanette Lee's benefits, and she participates in the snooker league at Airport Billiards.
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she had to start earning a living and it wasn't going to be in pool. i think either she or joanne mason was the first female player i ever saw,,,,,,,,,,,in elizabeth, nj
 
Nesli is missed by us New Yorkers. She and I used to practice a lot together, and I went to her house in Staten Island several times, where she had a nice-playing Diamond Table that, believe it or not, she won in a raffle at a pro pool event.

Nesli is highly qualified and had a career in computer science (doing something along the lines of running a data center, if memory serves) before leaving it for pro pool, and she has simply returned to that same profession.

I saw Nesli last summer in Indianapolis when I was visiting a friend of mine,and she seemed to be doing well.
 
She's good

Nes, as those who know her call her, is doing fine. She stilll plays quite often actually. She plays at airport billiards in indianapolis and has been dating a good friend of mine for quite some time, he's a great player i might add. I see her quite a bit and Ill ask her to join the forum.
 
sjm said:
Nesli is missed by us New Yorkers. She and I used to practice a lot together, and I went to her house in Staten Island several times, where she had a nice-playing Diamond Table that, believe it or not, she won in a raffle at a pro pool event.

Nesli is highly qualified and had a career in computer science (doing something along the lines of running a data center, if memory serves) before leaving it for pro pool, and she has simply returned to that same profession.

I saw Nesli last summer in Indianapolis when I was visiting a friend of mine,and she seemed to be doing well.
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I remember when Neslie brought Jennifer Chen to Richie Sacco's NJ State 9-ball Championships - her first US tournament (?). Richie had got a bunch of NY Jets FB players to show up the Friday night before to hang around and play. Neslie set me up with this 17 YO pup for a race to 7 (no money involved). Anyway, Jennifer was slamming the breaks with such force, these 250-300 lbs players were stopping their play just to watch her, they were so impressed.

Yeah, I lost 7-0, but I got my revenge on Neslie up in Providence, RI later.

Wasn't her nickname "Crunch"?

Barbara
 
Barbara said:
I remember when Neslie brought Jennifer Chen to Richie Sacco's NJ State 9-ball Championships - her first US tournament (?). Richie had got a bunch of NY Jets FB players to show up the Friday night before to hang around and play. Neslie set me up with this 17 YO pup for a race to 7 (no money involved). Anyway, Jennifer was slamming the breaks with such force, these 250-300 lbs players were stopping their play just to watch her, they were so impressed.

Yeah, I lost 7-0, but I got my revenge on Neslie up in Providence, RI later.

Wasn't her nickname "Crunch"?

Barbara
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Yeah, Barbara, I went to a few NJ State Women's nineball championships, which, because it used to be held the week before the Brunswick New York Classic, tended to draw a strong field. I always remember the year Devil Dave Ascolese wore the big neck brace just after his accident.

I remember the young Jennifer Chen well. Saw her gamble with a friend of mine just before the (1996 or 1997) Brunswick New York Classic, and she was still finding her bearings. My friend offered her the called eight ball for a hundred a set. To his astonishment, she called it before the break shot in one rack, and before he could say anything, she broke the balls, and, sure enough, the eight went into the pocket she called it in. She didn't speak too much English, but he tried to explain that this did not constitute a win, but she disagreed, and it got a bit unpleasant. Seems funny looking back.

As you've noted, Nesli was one of those that helped Jennifer to find her bearings when she first came to the US.

Finally, yes, Nesli was sometimes called "Nesli Crunch".
 
sjm said:
My friend offered her the called eight ball for a hundred a set. To his astonishment, she called it before the break shot in one rack, and before he could say anything, she broke the balls, and, sure enough, the eight went into the pocket she called it in. She didn't speak too much English, but he tried to explain that this did not constitute a win, but she disagreed, and it got a bit unpleasant. Seems funny looking back.
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Why would this not be considered a win? If he's giving her the called eight and she called it what's the problem?
 
I can't comment on how it's played in Asia, but in the US, making the spot ball on the break doesn't win the rack. The way it's generally played is:

Person giving the spot makes it: Spot the ball at the end of their inning unless they run up to a ball having a higher number than the spot ball.

Person getting the spot makes it: Spot the ball immediately.
 
Everytime I've ever played with a called ball, it counted on the break, if called correctly, unless it was specified ahead of time to not be a win on the break. I'm sure if varies from person to person.
 
sjm said:
Yeah, Barbara, I went to a few NJ State Women's nineball championships, which, because it used to be held the week before the Brunswick New York Classic, tended to draw a strong field. I always remember the year Devil Dave Ascolese wore the big neck brace just after his accident.
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Thank God Dave recovered from that accident. I haven't seen him in a while, how is he doing?

Yeah, It was 1996 because I picked up Jennifer at Dawn's house to go play in the 9-ball BCA event at the Tropicana and she took off the whole event, and also winning some bucks at Pao-Gow, to boot.

The absolute BEST NJ State 9-ball Championship event was when Richie Sacco added $5000 and it turned out to be a mini WPBA tourny just before the last NYC WPBA event at Amsterdam. Jeanette Lee won over Vivian in the finals. It was a who's who that attended - Geez! And then there was the proposition to all who was there that if you made the 9 on the snap in a hill-hill match, you won $500. It was a once only prop for Saturday and on Sunday. No one claimed the prize so on either day so we had a rack off and Kelly Oyama came closest, but didn't win.

Barbara
 
Barbara said:
Thank God Dave recovered from that accident. I haven't seen him in a while, how is he doing?
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Yeah, that sure was a scary moment with Dave. For those who don't know of Devil Dave, he was always a great supporter of women's pro pool.

Barbara, I don't believe I've seen Dave since the 2001 WPBA Valley Forge event. Hope he's well. One of the real good guys!
 
sjm said:
Yeah, that sure was a scary moment with Dave. For those who don't know of Devil Dave, he was always a great supporter of women's pro pool.

Barbara, I don't believe I've seen Dave since the 2001 WPBA Valley Forge event. Hope he's well. One of the real good guys!
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Yeah, ya think?

Yo Steve Lipsky? Jude? Any other NYC insiders? Where in the world is Devil Dave? Any Secaucus/Meadowlands peoples?

Barbara
 
sjm said:
I can't comment on how it's played in Asia, but in the US, making the spot ball on the break doesn't win the rack. The way it's generally played is:

Person giving the spot makes it: Spot the ball at the end of their inning unless they run up to a ball having a higher number than the spot ball.

Person getting the spot makes it: Spot the ball immediately.
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FWIW, everywhere I've played in the U.S. a called shot is a called shot. If you get the call eight, and you call it on the break and make it, you win.
 
PoolBum said:
FWIW, everywhere I've played in the U.S. a called shot is a called shot. If you get the call eight, and you call it on the break and make it, you win.
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In view of your response and others, easy to see why there was a dispute. I've played in both hadicapped tournaments and handicapped leagues in NYC with ball spots, and you weren't ever allowed to call a money ball on the break in either.

We can safely assume that Jennifer Chen had experience playing it your way, though.
 
Yep, it counts.

sjm said:
In view of your response and others, easy to see why there was a dispute. I've played in both hadicapped tournaments and handicapped leagues in NYC with ball spots, and you weren't ever allowed to call a money ball on the break in either.

We can safely assume that Jennifer Chen had experience playing it your way, though.
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Every handicapped tournament I have played in, it counts if you call it on the break.

Not saying it is correct, but I have played it that way in a lot of handicapped tournaments.
 
sjm said:
In view of your response and others, easy to see why there was a dispute. I've played in both hadicapped tournaments and handicapped leagues in NYC with ball spots, and you weren't ever allowed to call a money ball on the break in either.

We can safely assume that Jennifer Chen had experience playing it your way, though.
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Counts around where I lived, never heard of it not counting.
 
cubswin said:
Counts around where I lived, never heard of it not counting.
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You have now.

FYI, the best handicapped weekly tournament the Northeast has known in the last ten years was the Tuesday night event at Chelsea Billiards in the late 1990's, which I played in about three times a month. The field of 64 typically included about ten pros. in that event, the money ball ALWAYS spotted if it went down on the break.
 
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