Idioms - Explain the meaning of the sentence please

archu.mohan wrote:I am trying to understand what the following statement conveys:

He wins frequently, AS MUCH because he plays SO hard AS because he cheats.
(Idioms in CAPS)

Can someone clarify for me please?

I think I might be able to help a little bit.

I am not sure that this is an idiom that you have used in your sentence. It seems to be maybe a confusion between different idioms. For example, "as much as" is an idiom and "so much so" and "so much as" are idioms too. But I don't think that "as much so as" is an idiom. That might be why it's hard to understand. It was hard for me to understand the sentence the first time I saw it.

Here are some links that will give you definitions and examples of the idioms I mentioned:
1. https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/so+much+as
2. https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/so+much+so
3. https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/as+much+as

If I were to write down the idea that you were trying to convey in that sentence, I would probably write something like:

"He wins frequently, as much from playing hard as from cheating."

Again, I would recheck your sources to see if your sentence is correctly written. Also, I'd be interested to find out where this idiom came from since I am not familiar with it.