WAUKESHA - A professional poker player is seeing the chips falling
around him after he was extradited from Las Vegas to face child support
charges here.
Scott Obst, 39, was ordered held in lieu of $160,648.41 cash bail - the
amount, including interest he allegedly owes the mother of his 17-year-old
son. Obst was charged last fall with four counts of failure to pay child
support, but first appeared in criminal court Wednesday to face the
charges after he was extradited from Las Vegas.
PokerPages.com reported that Obst began playing poker in 2004 and has
won more than $41,000 since 2005.
"This is no less of an alleged criminal act than any other case
that comes before this court," Court Commissioner Laura Lau told Obst
in setting the bail at a figure three times that requested by the state.
"What you’ve done is left one parent to provide support for a child
and that’s unacceptable."
