Gabriel Béliveau

[Gabriel Béliveau @GabBeliveau96]

@Topstep @dotjosh 1043$ usd payout for a week of work ! Nice way to start the weekend 👨‍🍳🚀

[ClubWPT Gold @ClubWPTGold]

You can’t make this up 😭

Garrett Adelstein @GmanPoker was coaching famous streamer @Sodapoppintv and he gets a J4

Live reaction:

[Gabriel Béliveau @GabBeliveau96]

@ChancesCards @clcpoker @ACR_POKER #16 was the charm ahah gl chance

[Jesse Lonis @JesseLonis]

There are 28 people left in event #1 @tritonpoker. The winner will receive $642,000. I'm one of them! If I win, I'll give $1,000 to one person who reposts and likes this tweet. Must follow me to win. Watch on YouTube under Triton Poker! 🦍

[Gabriel Béliveau @GabBeliveau96]

1,5K Challenge round @Topstep @CoachDBA crazy play !

[Gabriel Béliveau @GabBeliveau96]

@NickGTrades @Topstep @Trent0n513 @MichaelPatak It can be done boss 😉

[Titan @Titan_trading1]

$3,000 payout from the topstep 3k challenge!

It took a surprising amount of discipline to get to this payout.

These challenge accounts are not easy!

Base hits really do add up. Most people blow up, trying to make what they need to in one day.

I’ve had much bigger payouts, however this feels like one of the most rewarding!

Without discipline, there is no strategy that will ever work in trading and with discipline there are hundreds of strategies that will work!

[Gabriel Béliveau @GabBeliveau96]

@Mcast55Plays @Topstep Wasup

[Gabriel Béliveau @GabBeliveau96]

@nehal_rm1 @TakeProfitLLC @nehal_rm1 Congrats !! Why would u say they are the best in ur opinion

[Trader Miints @MiintsTrades]

Passed the 1.5k challenge in a day. Lightwork. Locked in 🔐 @Topstep

[Gabriel Béliveau @GabBeliveau96]

Honestly, I totally agree with you. I’m in my fourth year of trading, and after about three and a half years of being unprofitable, I’m finally starting to see some consistency, make profits, and get a few payouts.

My biggest issue has always been risk management and sizing way too big. This challenge is really making me realize how important it is to control your risk and stay disciplined. You don’t need to trade big size—even with just one or two micros, you can still put up some really solid numbers.

So I completely agree with the message in your video. It’s definitely the right approach.

[Gabriel Béliveau @GabBeliveau96]

@dotjosh Thanks 🙏

[Topstep Josh @dotjosh]

Damn, nice!

[Coach Dakota @CoachDBA]

Wow..... just wow!!!!

Crushing and already passed the first round in the $1.5k?? 👀

[Gabriel Béliveau @GabBeliveau96]

@CoachDBA 🥰🔥

[NQ.DAVID @Daviddsc15]

@GabBeliveau96 @Topstep @CoachDBA twinnnn

[Gabriel Béliveau @GabBeliveau96]

@Daviddsc15 @Topstep @CoachDBA Ahahah pretty sick gg

[Stephen Chidwick @ChidwickStephen]

Hello X.

Many of you will know me as a top poker player who doesn’t say very much, and for a long time, I guess I didn’t really think I had much of value to say.

I’ve kept a low profile for most of my life. I’ve built my career with a quiet determination and focus on the things I could control—my preparation, my decisions, my consistency. “I don’t waste my time with social media,” I told myself. And while that decision was undoubtedly the right one for me at the time, the reasons were fabricated—or at least incomplete. What I didn’t admit so explicitly was my fear: fear of criticism, of vulnerability, and of my inability to control my own obsessive nature.

I would almost certainly meet the criteria for autism spectrum disorder. I would almost certainly meet the criteria for bipolar disorder, though I never stuck around long enough after an episode to receive a formal diagnosis (whether or not I identify with these labels is a topic for another day). I’ve known the isolation of being forcibly separated from society, for my own protection, and wondering how I got there. I’ve experienced being so socially drained from a day of live poker that I’ve gone to sleep hungry. Not because I was so focused that I lost my appetite, but because those one or two brief human interactions required to feed myself were just too much. I know how absurd that sounds—I knew it back then too—but no amount of rationality stopped it from being true.

Over time, I slowly adapted. I learned how to sublimate that anxious energy and turn it into a motivating force—into an obsessively focused drive to reach my potential as a poker player, to prove my worth to the world through external accomplishments.

And then the validation I was seeking started coming.

In 2019, I was voted by my peers in a CardPlayer magazine survey to be the best player in the world—my dreams had become reality.

My ego had a field day, but it wasn’t long before I realized there was still a piece missing.

Now that I was painted as “the best”, there was no margin for error. Despite everything I had accomplished, I was no less fragile. Every misstep felt like a threat to the whole narrative. Am I slipping? Am I getting old and complacent and lazy? How much longer can I keep tricking people into thinking I’m so good when I know how big my mistakes can be?

And none of that even touched the root of what I was actually seeking underneath it all—to be accepted. So when someone threw out an offhanded criticism—“boring,” “robotic,” “no personality”—I took it to heart. Because somewhere in me, I was scared they were right.

Driven by my desire to be the best poker player I could be, I started doing deeper inner work—peeling back the layers of my belief structure and examining what was uncovered. Why did I feel like I had to be perfect to be worthy? What was I really seeking through my success? Uncomfortable investigations that slowly but surely started to free me from my preconceived notions of who I was and who I should be.

And I saw the benefits—in my performance at the table, yes—but more so in my day-to-day interactions with my family, my friends, casual acquaintances, and even total strangers. The progress empowered me and urged me onwards. The more I leaned into vulnerability, honesty, and trust in others, the more confident, authentic, and self-assured I felt.

I’m learning to listen not only to my precious logic but also to the quiet, mysterious, unexplainable voice within. The voice that speaks when _I_ am silent. The voice that now compels me to write this—and to expose it for the world to see.

And so here I am—the kid inside the robot costume.
Just another human being in pursuit of love, of connection, of belonging.
Tired of running from my shadow and ready to stop and turn around (I hope).

This message is for anyone who feels trapped in the darkness. I’ve lived through times that felt unbearable—where the idea of peace, or connection, or even a quiet mind felt impossibly far away. If you’re in that place right now, I want you to know: it can get better. You’re not broken. You’re not beyond help. Keep going.

I also want to thank all the people who saw something in me that I took a long time to see in myself and guided me down this path. Some will know who they are. Others may never realize how much a small gesture meant to someone who was struggling. I’m deeply grateful for all of you.

TL;DR: Hi, I’m new here.

PS my intention is to be quite intermittent in my engagement with social media, at least initially, so if you reach out to me and I don’t respond please don’t take it personally.

[Gabriel Béliveau @GabBeliveau96]

@GmanPoker @GmanPoker Hey Gman ! I just listened to your interview on the Table One Podcast and ordered your audiobook right after. Just wanted to let you know that you’re a real inspiration. Keep doing what you’re doing and don’t stop! 🙌