Most poker players may fear the bad beat, but there’s one who doesn’t fear being a deadbeat.

A deadbeat dad, that is.

An arrest warrant has been issued for professional poker player Scott Obst, who authorities say owes more than $100,000 in past child support payments.

WTMJ, a television station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, reported that police in Wisconsin issued the warrant for Obst, 39, of Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, because he owes $115,000 in child support payments for his son, Andrew, 17, who lives with his mother in Milwaukee.

A Wisconsin court determined that Obst makes $37,000 a month as a professional poker player, but has paid no child support for the past three years, the TV station reported.

Obst also does modeling and works in the adult film industry, the TV station reported.

Obst lives in a fancy condominium in a pricey gated community a block from the Las Vegas Strip and drives an expensive sport utility vehicle, the TV station reported.

WTMJ sent a reporter, John Mercure, to Las Vegas, to stake out Obst’s home. After several days, Obst appeared, and Mercure confronted him about the owed child support payments. =A0=A0 At first, Obst declined to talk to Mercure, but when pressed, denied he missed making the payments.

Obst also expressed surprise that an arrest warrant had been issued.

The poker-playing deadbeat dad then ran away from the reporter.

In an interview, Obst’s son, Andrew, after seeing the stakeout footage, told the TV reporter: “I’m looking at the guy who hasn’t supported me forever and just seeing him run away, literally run away. It’s horrible. Outrageous. I want to talk to him. He’s just jumping under the radar every time and to me it’s annoying to see him getting away.”

In another interview with the TV newsman, Andrew’s mother, Connie, said: “I’ve got a great kid. Scott is the one who is missing out huge. He really is. And unfortunately, so is Andrew, financially. Anything would help. And even a phone call would help my son. Anything would help. I couldn’t get Scott to do what he was supposed to do and to what the right thing to do is.”

Obst apparently earns most of his poker winnings playing in regular poker games in casinos.

According to tournament records, he has finished in the money in just five poker tourneys lifetime, earning a total of $41,456.

His biggest tournament cash-out was $15,470, earned from a third-place finish in a World Poker Tour (WPT) no-limit Texas hold ‘em tourney in 2006.

(E-mail Tom Somach at tomsomach@yahoo.com.)