He made good money for several years before the cheating was exposed. A good investment.
Todd Rogers is a genuinely excellent video game player. He's also a blatant cheater.
Sometimes this causes them to think that a game owes them a certain score/time (maybe they they pass all the hard 1 in 20 RNG events and then a stupid 99 in 100 RNG fails them) and occasionally decide to cheat just to get that score/time.