A professional poker player suspected of doling out bad beats to unsuspecting travelers for four years with dark tales of money woes has been arrested in Detroit, authorities said.

Michael Borovetz, a fixture at poker tournaments in Las Vegas and Atlantic City for the last 15 years, was busted Saturday at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after authorities got a tip that he’d be connecting at the hub from Seattle en route to Miami on a gambling jaunt, according to the Wayne County Airport Authority.

“Borovetz is known at airports across the country for approaching passengers with a sad story in an attempt to get money, while promising to pay it back,” airport officials said in a statement obtained by The Post. “Once Borovetz receives the money, the victims never hear from him again.”

Airport police first started getting complaints about Borovetz — who has career tournament earnings of nearly $600,000, according to a poker database — in 2015 when a passenger recognized him from a previous airport encounter.

The complaints connected to Borovetz, 44, kept stacking up for years, but he was able to avoid arrest until airport officials discovered his pending travel plans over the weekend.

Wayne County Airport Authority spokeswoman Lisa Gass said Borovetz’s criminal history, including fraud convictions, spans 13 states. He was arraigned Monday on two counts of false pretenses with intent to defraud, Gass said.

It’s too early to tell exactly how much money Borovetz took while duping passengers, Gass said, adding that investigators are still getting phone calls from suspected victims. It’s also unclear how many people he victimized nationwide, she said.

Borovetz, whose bond was set at $100,000, faces up to one year in jail on each count if convicted. He has been a regular at poker tournaments since at least 2004, taking home winnings of $589,958 during that span, according to the Hendon Mob Poker Database.

Most recently, Borovetz took home $900 after finishing in 214th place at a World Poker Tour event in Los Angeles last August.