We don't have a lot of visibility into pros cash game results (except for HSP, I suppose), but tournament winnings are easy to find. Sure, his appearance of being a poker god was seriously helped by a hella-good 2004, which would have been a good year to be on TV as we were just beginning to observe the people on TV we could previously only read about on the internet. But he has done quite well since then. Even if you do enter every event at the WSOP, picking up 4 bracelets says something. It does to me anyhow.