I have a problem and I owe a friend money by mid June (they need it to pay taxes). Currently I have about $4k that I can use to make the $14k.
Does anyone have any ideas where I can grind or work and use my $4k to get there?
Not sure if this is the right place for the post but any advice at all would be very helpful!
Thanks!

Come on man, if you had a way to make $10k excess dollars every 4 months you'd be a pretty well off person.

Yea, Just thought I'd post on this website because it's full of poker players who are notoriously in jams w/ money.

Not in the probability forum, we're all millionaires.

Needing money doesn't actually make it any easier to get it. My point is that if it were possible to have a relatively assured way to make $10k from $4k in 4 months, well, everyone would already be doing it. And I doubt they'd tell you how.

(Hint: I have $4k and would like $10k more)

Good point, but I am also sure you have more than $4k. Maybe I should rephrase this (sorry for confusion): How much can a winning player make in 4 months with a $4k bankroll by using proper bankroll management, only using 5% of my bankroll at once.

I apologize if I'm assuming too much here, but it sounds as if you don't have much experience, and as such you are likely to earn more in an hour at a minimum wage job than playing poker. Also getting an extra job has zero variance, which will assure that you will have the money and your friend won't break your legs.

And my point is, if you could make $10k in 4 months with a $4k bankroll, you would already be doing it. Nothing anyone can tell you is going to magically make this possible.

But realistically? What's the downside, i.e. what happens if you can't pay? How much risk of ruin are you ok with?

I mean, you have about enough to play $1/$2 NL with 20 buyins. If you can beat it maybe you could make $20/hour playing it live? If you ran right at $20/hour you could do it in 30 hours/week. But if you could beat $1/$2 for $20/hour you'd probably already be doing it.

The question of how much you can win with X bankroll in Y time, must have two other components. What confidence level in meeting or exceeding the goal, and how much risk of losing it all are you willing to take. And in poker there is another factor, how much edge you have over the average player at the stakes you will be playing.

For example, if you are willing to have 50% risk of ruin, and 50% confidence of achieving the goal, then just put all the money on red in roulette in one bet. Bam, your objectives were met.

It gets harder when you want the risk to be lower and the confidence to be higher. To triple a poker bankroll in 4 months requires a willingness to take a LOT of risk, and even then your confidence won't be high, no matter how good you are.

He'd have to make more than one bet in roullete since he wants to profit $10k from $4k

Thanks a lot for the input guys. I am a pretty experienced player _ used to play on fulltilt under thegreedyfish. Always fancied tournaments but they're too risky for this sort of thing too.
conclusion; job>grinding
I'll take a couple shots in some tournies here and there.

If you give your friend the 4k thats 4k less you owe him. Sure he would rather have that than nothing.

I don't think that's right Rusty. Roulette ain't all 50/50 shots.

Yeah, but if you look at the post he is referring to you will see that the poster was talking about Red/Black bets.

I don't know what you mean... I see no reference to red/black in this thread.