Scott is a thief and a lying scammer, and just a horrible person in general to many of those affiliated with him or have been. I know first hand he treats his guys like complete sh**, he has clear anger problems and a drug addiction. He will work any angle possible to make money/steal funds from backers, friends and even students. Those defending him, clearly don't know who the real Scott is. Not to mention that he MA's, admittedly. There are still many people who are owed by Scott or have been wronged by Scott who seem to be keeping their mouths shut, likely under false hope of getting money back from him. It was only a matter of time until he was outed.

I hope that Scott can just admit and take blame for all that he has done and just move on and improve and learn from his mistakes, and stop trying to drag whoever else through the mud with him and just take responsibility for his actions and right the wrongs he has done to others in terms of his angling and stealing. Its unlikely but who knows.

i can say i know a little icant and i had a couple of hours of coaching with him, we didnt finish it and was my fault and his fault but i didnt get my money back what until a certain point i undestand
what i dont acept here and think is bad for all of us is ps policy of acting like god , i had a couple of times my account frozen withou preview notice and when i ask why they told me they want to know my conection with player xxx, wich many times i didnt have a clue of who he was
i think if the facts ocured icant should be punished but i also think that ps can do what they when they want without us players have the chance to defend ourselves and explain what hapened thats what i think is very wrong in the way ps acts

My reply was based solely on what I read. But sure, I may be viewing things the wrong way here.

If someone is possibly breaking the TOS and cheating/stealing money from other players, the ONLY thing to do is quickly freeze the account so the perp doesn't steal more while they investigate.

i agree with you but dont you think at the moment they do that they should tell you what they are doing and the reasons why???
imagine you go to your ps account and its frozen and nobody told you nothing and then they ask you with is your conection with someone you never heard about

WCOOP51, 1k. Looks like it was a two day event, I asume he played day one when his account was still live, and either busted day one or blinded off day 2, result was reported on Sharkscope after tournament ends.

i wonder how many accounts he got to play that on

doesn't matter. he'll play on some random acc with random name and fake drivers license. so the ban is worthless for him

Yes, of course they should.

bro you deserve the lifetime ban. You would be going to jail if it was another profession

He would lose SNE status

Pretty impressive if his secondary accounts are all SNE...

Also I believe he mentioned he was close to some VPP or FPP milestone worth a bunch of cash. I was replying to the guy who claimed the ban is "worthless".

who was that guy?

Aquasces1

I love it when justice prevails a little

What an absolute scumbag

He'll no doubt create another account in someone elses name and start playing on Stars again, but he is such a hot headed, blithering moron that he'll **** it up again lol


Scott Ricotta is a liar and a thief

He will play MTTs probably, but hardly his main games and SNE.

Sad part of this whole story is OP doesn't even recognize his behavior to be totally wrong and scumbag. Does he even has any morals whatsoever?

bet there's more like him to be catched yet though. Hopefull Pokerstas Game Integrity catches them all!

Please don't purchase coaching from somebody that has admitted to going AWOL for weeks without notifying his students (in hospital with heart problems was the subsequent reason given), then withholding their up-front payments.

He quotes a ridiculously high hourly rate ($500) so that people decide to pay a bond then receive coaching for profit instead (in the erroneous belief that it offers better value). Then he orchestrates a fall-out or goes off the radar, and when a refund is requested he refuses.

In short, there are better coaches that are more reliable, do not steal, and that are cheaper.

I am fairly sure he's kidding. No person in his/her right mind would ask for his training right now.

I (and DutchSmoke) fell in his coaching trap before tho, when we -maybe naively - thought he was a trustworthy crusher. Pity the pokerworld in so unregulated, so that guys like Scott can (semi) get away with this. Byebye, 8K$.

p.s I know Scott has been backed by BBZ in the recent past. Wondering how that worked out and whether BBz couldn't have passed the warning.

p.s2 It's horrible in it's own way that (looking only in this topic) 10+ people have been scammed by him, but none of that information has ever become public. A lot of it might've been avoided

kinda disgusting how everyone enjoys his downfall. for me personally i dont wish that anyone whos playin for a living a couple of years already and suddenly stays there with empty hands.

i find this ghosting thing pretty lol aswell. in the mtt scene scott is seen as a big regfish. doesnt make sense to me that he opens another acc or even ghost players deep in a tourney..

sick crusher? maybe u shud inform yourself before gettin coached lol..
in his sngs he was slightly a breakeven player pre rb. his strenght was only the multitabling and playing different games at the same time..

Yeah. I often wonder why we aren't being nicer to the bad guys of the world. I mean, it's not like they've put themselves in that position...

no doubt about it. its his own fault and stars handled it hard but fine.

but people act here like he hacked, ddosed accs/threatened players/stole money and all he did (if true) played on another acc (for whatever reason?!?!?) with his fishy mtt play

I think people putting their 0.02$ in this thread should at least read said thread before. He did threatened people (his backer and his students) and stole their money.
OTOH loved how he outed himself and basically admitted everything stars had against him and even more. genius itt