I don't think you can say 11 bracelets are a result of getting lucky...
You can win it once by luck, you might win it twice if you get very lucky, but you can't win it 11 times without being a very good player.
To make another statement, I think the factor luck has become bigger with the internet-players who play way more aggressive and thus bringing more variance and bigger shipstacks into tournaments.
Standard moves are so aggressive that you can't play any small pots anymore, leaving less room for small pot poker (wich is where skill plays a bigger roll).
When you see someone making a big laydown, it's mostly an old style pro. Why is that? Because with internet-players the pot is allready too big to fold, or the money is allready in when the scare-card hits.
You don't see someone dodging bullets with abc-poker
let's say you play this hand...
you bet the flop, AB thinks: he's gonna bet every single hand on that flop (wich is right), and I don't think he'll 2nd barrel with air since I have to have a hand to call the flop with, so he calls.
9 hits the turn, and you can't avoid being all in on the turn or river.
You show hands and you go: omfg, donkaments, how can you call my flopbet, etc...
You can't buy anything with 'I got some money in with the best hand'.
If AB has something like 67s and hits a flushdraw or pair on the turn, Phil's gonna get more money from him. While you would've just got him to fold the flop with that hand.
Plus Phil had the chance to fold his hand, wich he might have done if there was no straight possibility (I'm not saying he would, I'm saying he could).
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