If you owe money... you pay it. If that means you have a reduced grind.. or you have to sat in to a few of them on the cheap.. then that's your problem for owing money. It isn't the other person's problem. There are always going to be reasons why you "need it" - but the money belongs to someone else, not you.
Assuming the statement is true, and he is grinding off his own coin, then surely you just lose a couple of $1000 buyin tournaments. There are plenty of other tournaments and they'll be another WCOOP/SCOOP/FCOOP/GSOP along before you know it.
I have dropped the bigger buyins and higher variance tournaments numerous times when the bankroll has got light. It just seems standard
Marc isn't the only one here that has me scratching my head on this.