Sashimi Poker Net Worth 2026: $500K-$1.1M, Real Name & HCL Career
Sashimi’s net worth is estimated between $500K and $1.1 million, a range built from tracked livestream results, a crypto sponsorship and untracked private games. Real name Yuuki Kaida, she is a Japanese cash game pro with 192 tracked livestream episodes, 169 of them on Hustler Casino Live.
Her on-camera record is unusually complete for a cash game player, and it cuts against her reputation. Highroll Poker logs her at +$33,515 across 903 hours in July 2026, with her profit coming from PokerGO formats and Live at the Bike while she runs five figures down on HCL itself.
This profile covers those numbers show by show, her real identity and background, the December 2022 bodysuit incident, her confirmed relationship with Joseph Cheong, and where her BC.GAME deal stands in 2026.
Player Quick Facts
- Full Name: Yuuki Kaida
- Nickname: Sashimi
- Born: 1993 (age 33; exact date reported as January 1 but unverified)
- Nationality: Japanese (third-generation Korean heritage)
- Residence: Las Vegas, Nevada
- Net Worth (Estimate): $500K-$1.1M (not publicly confirmed)
- Tracked Livestream Earnings: +$33,515 net across 192 episodes and 903 hours (Highroll Poker, July 2026)
- Hustler Casino Live Record: -$43,350 across 169 tracked episodes
- Primary Format: High-stakes NLHE cash games
- Biggest Pot: $193,600 on HCL Episode 444 (vs Nik Airball, Ben Lee, Dentist Dave)
- Known For: Hustler Casino Live regular; bodysuit controversy; speech play and table talk
- Sponsorship: BC.GAME "Head of All In" ambassador (signed April 2025)
Sashimi's Net Worth
Sashimi’s net worth is not publicly confirmed. The most commonly cited estimate across poker media puts the figure between $500,000 and $1.1 million, a range last reviewed here in September 2026. It factors in tracked livestream profits, the BC.GAME sponsorship, social media income and untracked private game results.
Nobody outside Sashimi’s inner circle knows the real number. What can be done is to break down what is verifiable and show where the gaps are.
The four income sources behind the estimate
Four components feed the range, and only one of them can be checked from the outside:
- Tracked livestream profits: Sashimi shows a net profit of $33,515 across 192 tracked episodes and 903 hours on the Highroll Poker database (tracker last updated July 2026). This is the only fully verifiable component of her financial picture, and it is a small one.
- BC.GAME sponsorship: Signed as the platform's "Head of All In" ambassador on April 4, 2025. The financial terms were never disclosed. Poker sponsorship deals at this level typically pay five to six figures a year, but without confirmation that number is speculative.
- Social media income: With roughly 90,000 Instagram followers and 39,000 on X, Sashimi likely earns from sponsored posts and brand partnerships. No figures have been disclosed.
- Private cash games: Sashimi says she has played cash games in more than 50 countries. None of those results are tracked. The upper end of the estimate assumes profitable private game activity, which is entirely unverified.
The floor rests on the sponsorship year and private game income, because tracked profit alone would not get close. The $1.1M ceiling adds assumptions about private game profits and social media revenue that cannot be confirmed from the outside.
Why is Sashimi’s net worth hard to pin down?
Most net worth estimates for cash game players carry large margins of error. For Sashimi, four factors make any precise figure unreliable:
- Off-camera action: The majority of Sashimi's poker hours are played in private games with no public reporting. Results from games in Macau, Monaco, London and private US games are entirely untracked.
- Staking and action selling: Sashimi has sold action on StakeKings, meaning a portion of her buy-ins and winnings are shared with investors. The splits are never disclosed, so headline results overstate her personal profit.
- Sponsorship value unknown: The BC.GAME deal adds to her income, but without disclosed terms any figure assigned to it is guesswork.
- Lifestyle and expenses: Travel across 50+ countries, buy-ins for high-stakes games and the cost of maintaining a public persona all reduce net worth relative to gross earnings. None of these costs are publicly known.
Until Sashimi discloses financial details publicly, any net worth figure should be treated as a rough estimate based on incomplete data. This section is updated when new information becomes available.
Who Is Sashimi? Early Life & Background
Sashimi’s real name is Yuuki Kaida. The name has been confirmed by Card Player magazine, which credits her as “Yuuki ‘Sashimi’ Kaida,” and both livestream trackers list her under it. She has never publicly denied the connection.
Despite her visibility on livestreamed poker shows, very little of her pre-poker background has been independently verified. What follows is drawn from her own public statements and reporting from poker media outlets.
Early life in Japan
Yuuki Kaida was born in Japan in 1993 into a third-generation Korean family. She has described splitting her early years between Tokyo and Osaka, though specific details about her upbringing remain scarce.
In interviews, she has referred to her parents as “strict but loving,” crediting them with encouraging both creativity and discipline. The combination of Japanese and Korean heritage is a detail she has acknowledged publicly but rarely elaborates on.
How old is Sashimi?
Sashimi was born in 1993, making her 33 years old in 2026. Multiple sources report her date of birth as January 1, 1993, though the specific day and month may be approximate. The birth year of 1993 is more reliably confirmed across independent sources.
Moving to the United States
In her early twenties, Kaida moved to the US on a student visa with plans to pursue a business career. She settled in Las Vegas, where the proximity to the city’s cardroom scene quickly shifted her focus from business studies to poker.
She has described the transition as gradual rather than deliberate. Small cash games in Vegas backrooms became her training ground before she worked her way onto bigger stages.
Sashimi's Poker Career
Sashimi is a cash game player exclusively. She has no Hendon Mob profile, no WSOP entries and no tracked tournament results under either her real name or her alias. Her entire poker career has been built on livestreamed and private cash games.
That makes her an unusual profile compared to most players in the poker database. There are no tournament cashes to verify, no bracelet races to track and no all-time money list ranking to cite. What exists instead is a session-by-session record from third-party trackers covering every on-camera appearance.
First steps: Live at the Bike and Poker At The Lodge
Sashimi’s first tracked session of any kind was a $5/$10 NLH game on Live at the Bike on May 12, 2021. Two months later she made her Poker At The Lodge debut in far more modest circumstances:
- Show: Poker At The Lodge, Episode 52
- Date: July 14, 2021
- Game: $1/3 No Limit Hold'em
- Opponents: TM, Ashley Frank, Adric and others
- Result: lost $1,300
- Significance: first tracked appearance on a show she would return to at 25 times the stakes
A $1/3 game at The Lodge is about as far from the HCL spotlight as you can get. The $1,300 loss was small, but the session marked the start of a rapid upward trajectory that would see her playing $25/$50 within two years.
She returned to PATL four more times, including two sessions in May 2022 where she booked back-to-back $5,400 profits.
Her last two PATL sessions came on consecutive days in March 2024: a $33,250 loss at $25/$50 NLH on March 22, then a $7,845 win in a mixed game the next day.
Full career timeline, 2021 to 2026
Sashimi’s progression from micro-stakes newcomer to one of the most visible female cash game pros in poker happened over roughly three years, and she remains an HCL regular five years on:
- May 2021: First tracked appearance on Live at the Bike ($5/$10 NLH).
- July 2021: Poker At The Lodge debut, Episode 52. Played $1/3 NLH and lost $1,300.
- May 2022: Hustler Casino Live debut on Max Pain Monday. Bought in for $2,000 and cashed out $5,570.
- Mid-2022 to 2023: Became an HCL regular, appearing multiple times per month. Stakes increased from $5/$5 to $25/$50 and higher.
- Episode 444 (mid-2023): Won a $193,600 pot on a Super High-Stakes Friday, her career-defining hand. Finished the session up $226,400.
- March 2024: Final Poker At The Lodge appearances (Episodes 437 and 438), including her biggest tracked loss on that show.
- August to October 2024: Featured on PokerGO's No Gamble No Future Season 5 (Episodes 5 to 12), playing $100/$100 NLH at the PokerGO Studio.
- September 2024: Lost $115,400 on HCL Stream #771, her largest single-session loss on any tracked show.
- March 2025: Continued as an HCL Max Pain Monday regular alongside TheBrazilGod, MrDrBatman, Coco and Jasper Ma.
- April 4, 2025: Announced as BC.GAME's "Head of All In" ambassador. Her first poker sponsorship deal.
- November 2025: Posted the poker-table twerking video that ClubWPT Gold reposted, sparking a week-long industry argument.
- March to July 2026: Ten tracked HCL sessions for a combined -$68,400, pushing her HCL lifetime figure deeper into the red.
She also says she has played cash games in more than 50 countries, mixing with high-rollers in Macau, socialites in Monaco and up-and-coming players in London. None of those private game results are publicly tracked.
The $193,600 pot that defined her career
Sashimi’s biggest on-camera moment came during HCL Episode 444, a Super High-Stakes Friday session. The hand played out in a multiway pot against CoinPoker ambassador Nik Airball, Ben Lee and Dentist Dave:
- Pre-flop: Dentist Dave posted a $1,000 straddle, inflating the pot before a card was dealt.
- Sashimi's hand: pocket tens, which flopped a set.
- Pot size: $193,600, still her largest tracked pot on any show.
- Session result: +$226,400, her largest single-session win on any tracked show.
The hand was clipped by multiple YouTube poker channels and is still the moment most HCL viewers associate with her name.
No Gamble No Future and PokerGO
Beyond HCL, Sashimi’s most significant appearances have been on PokerGO’s No Gamble No Future. She played 3 episodes of Season 2 in April 2023, then returned for 8 episodes of Season 5 (Episodes 5 through 12), which aired from August 22 to October 23, 2024.
The Season 5 games were $100/$100 NLH at the PokerGO Studio inside ARIA:
- Week 2 lineup: 17-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, Justin Young, Julian Parmann and Shawn Madden.
- Weeks 3 and 4 lineup: Jared Bleznick, Jimmy D'Ambrosio, Wolfgang Poker and Humboldt Mike.
- Season 2 (April 2023): three episodes for a combined +$63,075 per TopPokerStreamers, her most profitable short run on any show.
NGNF is also where her money has come from. Highroll Poker logs her at +$52,825 across 17 hours on the show, an hourly rate of $3,107, against a losing record over 847 hours on HCL.
BC.GAME ambassadorship, April 2025
On April 4, 2025, Sashimi announced her first poker sponsorship deal:
- Announced: April 4, 2025. Her post on X announcing the deal received 76,800+ views.
- Title: "Head of All In" (BC.GAME described her as "fearless, unapologetic, and always ready to push the chips in").
- Fellow ambassadors: Poker Bunny and Wesley Flan are also listed as BCPoker sponsored pros.
- Financial terms: not disclosed. The deal adds an unknown but likely significant income stream beyond her tracked cash game results.
- Status in 2026: Card Player still listed her as a BCPoker sponsored creator in July 2026, but some industry reporting has claimed the deal ended in April 2026. Neither party has made a public statement either way.
The BC.GAME deal placed Sashimi alongside other crypto-first poker platforms that have been aggressively signing livestream personalities. It was her first formal brand relationship after nearly four years as an independent player.
She also sells action on StakeKings for her HCL sessions, meaning a portion of her buy-ins and winnings on the show are shared with investors. The splits are never publicly disclosed.
Livestream Results & Biggest Wins
Sashimi’s tracked results come from third-party databases that record session-by-session profit and loss from every on-camera appearance. Unlike tournament earnings, which are reported by official tour organisers, cash game results depend on independent trackers logging the cumulative winnings shown at the end of each stream.
Two trackers cover Sashimi’s career. Highroll Poker tracks the broadest range of shows and is the source for the table below. TopPokerStreamers logged HCL and PATL session by session but stopped updating her HCL record after September 2024.
Tracked earnings by show (Highroll Poker, July 2026)
| Show | Hours | Net Result | Hourly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hustler Casino Live | 847 | -$43,350 | -$51 |
| No Gamble No Future | 17 | +$52,825 | +$3,107 |
| PokerGO Extras | 4 | +$31,000 | +$7,750 |
| Live at the Bike | 12 | +$8,945 | +$745 |
| Poker At The Lodge | 23 | -$15,905 | -$692 |
| All shows | 903 | +$33,515 | +$37 |
The shape of that table is the story. Over 903 hours she is a marginal winner at $37 an hour, with all the profit coming from 33 hours on PokerGO and Live at the Bike. On HCL, where 94% of her tracked hours were played, she is $43,350 down.
How much has Sashimi lost on Hustler Casino Live?
The two trackers disagree on the size of the HCL hole. Highroll Poker puts it at -$43,350 across 169 episodes to July 2026. TopPokerStreamers logged -$20,635 across 99 appearances before its coverage stopped in September 2024, a window that included her $226,400 win on Episode 444.
Both figures are gross session results. Because Sashimi sells action on StakeKings, her personal share of both the wins and the losses is smaller than either number suggests.
Notable hands and session highlights
Beyond the Episode 444 pot covered in the career section above, several other hands and sessions have been featured by poker media or generated significant viewer attention:
- $226,400 session win (HCL Episode 444, 2023): Flopped a set of tens in a multiway pot against Nik Airball, Ben Lee and Dentist Dave on a Super High-Stakes Friday. Still her largest single-session result on any tracked show.
- -$115,400 session (HCL Stream #771, September 24, 2024): Her largest tracked loss, one of two six-figure-swing sessions that month after a -$57,225 result on Stream #762 two weeks earlier.
- $61,000 pot vs Nick "On Tilt" (HCL Max Pain Monday): Won a large pot against a player running bad, featured as a highlight by TopPokerStreamers.
- Battle of the Jacks vs Nick Vertucci (HCL): Both Sashimi and the HCL co-owner held pocket jacks in the same hand, a rare same-hand confrontation that TopPokerStreamers clipped.
- River bluff with a busted draw (HCL): Card Player magazine featured this hand in a video breakdown, calling it a notable example of Sashimi's aggressive bluffing tendencies.
- +$28,690 session (HCL Episode 1194, June 8, 2026): Her best result of 2026 to date, sandwiched between a -$19,090 session on June 1 and a -$8,850 session on June 22.
The pattern across these hands is consistent with Sashimi’s reputation. She generates large pots through aggressive betting, creative bluffs and a willingness to play speculative hands in multiway spots. That approach produces highlight-reel wins and visible losses, and on HCL the losses have won.
Playing Style That Divides Poker Fans
Sashimi’s playing style is built on aggression, confrontation and spectacle. It is the opposite of the tight, calculated approach that defines most winning cash game regulars. The core traits that shape her game:
- Hyper-aggressive betting: Sashimi plays far more hands than the average cash game regular and bets them aggressively. She frequently overbets the pot and fires multiple barrels with draws, weak pairs and outright air.
- Speech play and table talk: Constant verbal engagement with opponents is central to her game. She talks during hands to extract information, provoke reactions and push opponents into mistakes they would not make in silence.
- Deliberate slowrolling: On Max Pain Monday, where slowrolls are explicitly encouraged, Sashimi has become known for theatrical reveals including fake fold angles before turning over the nuts. Critics call it disrespectful. Supporters argue it is part of the show's format.
- High-variance comfort: She actively seeks out the biggest pots and the most volatile spots rather than playing a controlled, low-risk style. The swings in her tracked results reflect this approach directly.
- Entertainment-first mindset: Sashimi treats livestream poker as performance. Whether winning or losing, she creates moments that generate clips, commentary and debate. That approach has made her one of the most discussed players in the HCL ecosystem.
Aggression as identity: the VPIP numbers
The tracker data backs up the reputation. Highroll Poker records her voluntarily putting money in the pot on 44% of HCL hands and raising pre-flop on 21%, both well above the range most winning live regulars sit in.
| Metric | Hustler Casino Live | All tracked shows |
|---|---|---|
| VPIP | 44% | 34% |
| PFR | 21% | 17% |
| Hours played | 847 | 903 |
| Hourly result | -$51 | +$37 |
| Big blinds per hour | -0.34 | +0.25 |
Her biggest single-session win (+$226,400) and biggest loss (-$115,400) are both HCL results from a style that treats a five-figure swing as normal. That is the variance window she has chosen to live in.
This is a deliberate choice, not a leak. She has spoken openly about preferring action and big pots over grinding small edges, and the VPIP gap between her HCL games (44%) and her NGNF appearances (35%) suggests she loosens up most where the cameras and the crowd are biggest.
The speech play debate
Sashimi’s table talk is the most divisive part of her game. She uses constant verbal pressure during hands: asking opponents questions, commenting on board texture and sometimes making direct reads out loud to force a reaction.
Both sides of the argument have a case:
- The case for: poker coach Jonathan Little has analysed her hands on YouTube, noting that her speech play often serves a genuine strategic purpose. She talks to narrow down opponents' ranges and create uncertainty about her own holdings.
- The case against: some of her verbal exchanges cross the line from strategy into antagonism. The January 2023 confrontation with a player named Tao on Max Pain Monday is the most cited example, with insults traded on stream and many observers convinced it was orchestrated for content.
Where does she actually rank?
Sashimi is not a GTO player and does not claim to be. Her edge comes from live reads, psychological pressure and putting opponents in spots where emotional control matters more than technical skill.
That style has clear limitations against disciplined regulars who can ignore the theatre and play their ranges. It works best against recreational players and tilting opponents in the entertainment-focused formats where Max Pain Monday thrives.
She shares that lane with self-proclaimed baccarat whisperer Mikki Mase, another HCL personality who generates viewership over profit.
Her HCL record over 847 hours says the same thing: on that show she is an entertainer first, and the tracked data does not support calling her a winning HCL player.
Controversies & Viral Moments
Sashimi has generated more off-table headlines than most players generate in an entire career. Three incidents in particular have shaped public perception of her, and each reveals a different side of the debate about what livestreamed poker should look like.
The bodysuit incident (December 2022)
The most viral moment in Sashimi’s career had nothing to do with the cards. On December 5, 2022, she appeared on HCL Max Pain Monday wearing a prosthetic bodysuit that triggered a social media firestorm. Here is the full timeline:
- Date: December 5, 2022, Max Pain Monday.
- What happened: Sashimi wore a prosthetic bodysuit with large fake breasts under a sheer top. The prosthetics repeatedly slipped out on camera during play while she sat next to social media star Nick Austin.
- Commentator reaction: RaverPoker was visibly flustered on air. HCL co-owner Ryan Feldman later said he was not aware of the plan in advance and wished he had vetoed it.
- Viral reach: The clip generated an estimated 20 million views across platforms within days. International outlets including LADbible, the International Business Times and Gambling.com covered the story.
- Sashimi's response: She posted an apology on Instagram that included the pun "I promise to nip that behavior in the bud" and added "By the way, it's not fake." The tone suggested she was not taking the backlash seriously.
- Aftermath: The incident sparked a broader debate about whether livestreamed poker should prioritise entertainment value over professional standards. It remains her single most-searched moment online.
The original YouTube video was taken down and re-uploaded with edits. Despite the backlash, the incident brought Sashimi more attention than any pot she has ever won.
It was also the second time in three months that HCL had dominated poker headlines, following Robbi Jade Lew’s infamous J4 hand in September 2022. For a player whose brand is built on provocation, the controversy delivered exactly what it was designed to deliver.
Other controversies
The bodysuit incident was the loudest, but Sashimi has been involved in several other public confrontations that have fuelled debate about her conduct at the table:
- Tao confrontation (January 2023): A newcomer called Tao appeared on Max Pain Monday and told Sashimi she was "old" and "sucks at poker." Sashimi responded on X by calling her a profanity. Many viewers believed the confrontation was scripted for content, though neither party confirmed this.
- Angle shoot and slowroll (2023): Sashimi held a full house (jacks full) and performed a fake fold angle before slowrolling her opponent. Poker coach Jonathan Little analysed the hand in a video. Defenders pointed out that slowrolling is explicitly encouraged on Max Pain Monday as part of the show's format.
- Twerking video (November 19, 2025): Sashimi posted a video on X of a woman twerking on a poker table at a private all-women home game, captioned in Japanese ("American poker is like this"). ClubWPT Gold reposted it with the line "GTO players took this from us," and the combined posts passed 1 million views. BetMGM ambassador Abby Merk delivered the sharpest rebuke, ClubWPT Gold ambassador Doug Polk weighed in, and commentator Sara O'Connor criticised Polk's response rather than the video itself. The woman in the clip, identified only as Rose, later said she had no social media presence and had not known the video was posted.
A common thread runs through all of these incidents. Sashimi operates in the space between poker player and entertainer, and her willingness to push boundaries generates attention that traditional players avoid. Whether that is good or bad for the game depends on who you ask.
Personal Life & Relationship with Joseph Cheong
“Is Sashimi married?” and “Sashimi poker boyfriend” are among the most searched personal queries about her. The short answer: no confirmed marriage, and her one publicly acknowledged relationship is with WSOP bracelet winner Joseph Cheong.
Here is what is actually on the public record:
- Joseph Cheong connection (2022): Sashimi posted on X (circa January 2022) addressing the question directly. She wrote: "Ppl ask me if I am Joseph's gf I AM not Joseph cheong's girlfriend. HE IS my boyfriend." The distinction was playful, but the confirmation was clear.
- Who is Joseph Cheong? A professional poker player with more than $21.3 million in tracked live tournament earnings per The Hendon Mob and a 2019 WSOP bracelet. He finished 3rd in the 2010 WSOP Main Event for $4.1 million and is the Asian Poker Tour's all-time money leader.
- Current status: Unknown. Neither Sashimi nor Cheong has made any public statement about the relationship since 2022. Sashimi keeps this part of her life firmly private.
Reddit threads have speculated about additional relationships, but none have been substantiated by any named source. This profile does not report unverified claims about personal relationships.
Life outside poker
Sashimi’s Instagram account (roughly 90,000 followers) shows a lifestyle that extends well beyond the felt. Her posts feature private jet travel, golf and dining across multiple countries. The content is curated to project a high-end lifestyle, consistent with her claim of playing cash games in 50+ countries.
Beyond the social media image, very little about her day-to-day life is publicly known. She resides in Las Vegas, Nevada, and appears to spend the majority of her time between HCL sessions at Hustler Casino and international travel.
Social Media & Content
Sashimi uses the handle @sashimipoker across all platforms. Her combined following sits at roughly 172,000, with Instagram as her primary channel and YouTube dormant since 2023. Follower counts below are approximate.
- Instagram: @sashimipoker (~90,000 followers). Active. Content features poker session highlights, travel photos, private jet shots and BC.GAME promotional posts.
- X (Twitter): @sashimipoker (~39,000 followers). Active. Posts in both Japanese and English. Her most viral post was the November 2025 twerking video. Her bio: "I play poker every day."
- YouTube: @sashimipoker (~28,000 subscribers). Inactive since summer 2023. The channel features vlogs from HCL sessions and poker travel content, with no new uploads in three years despite her continued playing schedule.
- Threads: @sashimipoker (~15,500 followers). Active. Mostly reposts and short updates.
The gap between her Instagram activity and her abandoned YouTube channel is notable. YouTube poker vlogs are one of the fastest-growing content formats in the game, and crossover creators like ClubWPT ambassador Alexandra Botez show how large a poker content audience can grow.
Sashimi’s 28,000 subscribers represent an audience she has effectively stopped serving. Whether the channel returns remains an open question.
Latest News & Updates
Sashimi’s 2026 has been defined by volume rather than results. Highroll Poker logged ten Hustler Casino Live sessions between March 10 and July 20, 2026, and she lost seven of them for a combined -$68,400.
2026 Hustler Casino Live sessions
| Stream | Date | Result |
|---|---|---|
| HCL #1219 | Jul 20, 2026 | -$7,430 |
| HCL #1214 | Jul 13, 2026 | +$16,590 |
| HCL #1204 | Jun 22, 2026 | -$8,850 |
| HCL #1194 | Jun 8, 2026 | +$28,690 |
| HCL #1188 | Jun 1, 2026 | -$19,090 |
| HCL #1183 | May 25, 2026 | -$33,700 |
| HCL #1178 | May 18, 2026 | +$14,780 |
| HCL #1143 | Mar 30, 2026 | -$14,540 |
| HCL #1138 | Mar 23, 2026 | -$30,300 |
| HCL #1129 | Mar 10, 2026 | -$14,550 |
The three winning sessions (May 18, June 8 and July 13) came at a 31% to 43% VPIP, her tightest sessions in that stretch. The three worst losses came at 39% to 48%. Ten sessions prove nothing, but the split matches her lifetime numbers.
Off the felt, the open question is her sponsorship:
- What is confirmed: Card Player still listed her among BCPoker's sponsored creators in July 2026, alongside Poker Bunny and Wesley Flan.
- What is claimed: some industry reporting has said the "Head of All In" deal ended in April 2026.
- What is missing: any statement from Sashimi or BC.GAME. Until one appears, this profile treats the deal as signed in April 2025 with its 2026 status unconfirmed.
The November 2025 twerking video is her latest viral moment. The ClubWPT Gold repost turned a private home-game clip into a week-long argument about brand conduct in poker, with Sashimi’s caption (“American poker is like this”) quoted in most of the coverage.
For broader industry coverage, including the HCL storylines she plays alongside, check our latest poker news. This section is updated as new tracked sessions and announcements appear.
FAQs
What is Sashimi's real name?
Sashimi’s real name is Yuuki Kaida. This has been confirmed by Card Player magazine, which credits her as “Yuuki ‘Sashimi’ Kaida,” and both the Highroll Poker and TopPokerStreamers databases list her under that name. She has never publicly denied it.
How old is Sashimi the poker player?
Sashimi was born in 1993, making her 33 years old in 2026. Multiple sources report her date of birth as January 1, 1993, though the specific day and month may be approximate. The birth year is more reliably confirmed.
What is Sashimi's net worth?
Sashimi’s net worth is estimated between $500,000 and $1.1 million. The range includes tracked livestream profits ($33,515 per Highroll Poker, July 2026), her BC.GAME sponsorship deal, social media income and assumptions about unverified private game results. The figure is not publicly confirmed.
Is Sashimi married?
No confirmed marriage. Sashimi publicly acknowledged a relationship with WSOP bracelet winner Joseph Cheong in a January 2022 post on X. The current status of the relationship is unknown. Neither party has made any public statement about it since 2022.
Who is Sashimi's boyfriend?
The only relationship Sashimi has confirmed is with Joseph Cheong, the 2010 WSOP Main Event third-place finisher with more than $21.3 million in live tournament earnings. She confirmed it herself on X in early 2022. Nothing has been said publicly by either of them since, so whether they are still together is unknown.
Where is Sashimi from?
Sashimi was born in Japan to a third-generation Korean family. She has described growing up between Tokyo and Osaka before moving to the United States on a student visa in her early twenties. She currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada.
What happened with Sashimi on Hustler Casino Live?
Sashimi is best known for a December 2022 incident on HCL’s Max Pain Monday where she wore a prosthetic bodysuit with fake breasts under a sheer top. The clip went viral with an estimated 20 million views across platforms. She has also been involved in on-stream confrontations and controversial slowrolls. See the Controversies section above for the full breakdown.
How much has Sashimi won on Hustler Casino Live?
She has not won on HCL overall. Highroll Poker logs her at -$43,350 across 169 HCL episodes and 847 hours to July 2026. Her overall tracked record is +$33,515 across all shows, with the profit coming from PokerGO’s No Gamble No Future (+$52,825) and PokerGO Extras (+$31,000).
What is Sashimi's biggest pot?
Her biggest tracked pot is $193,600, won with a flopped set of tens on HCL Episode 444 against Nik Airball, Ben Lee and Dentist Dave. She finished that Super High-Stakes Friday session up $226,400, still her largest single-session result on any show.
Does Sashimi still play on Hustler Casino Live?
Yes. Highroll Poker logged ten HCL sessions between March and July 2026, mostly on Max Pain Monday, for a combined -$68,400. She has been an HCL regular since her May 2022 debut.
Does Sashimi play poker tournaments?
No. Sashimi has no Hendon Mob profile, no WSOP entries and no tracked tournament results under either her real name or her alias. Her entire career has been played in livestreamed and private cash games.
Who sponsors Sashimi?
Sashimi signed with crypto platform BC.GAME as its “Head of All In” ambassador on April 4, 2025, her first poker sponsorship. Financial terms were never disclosed. Some industry reporting has claimed the deal ended in April 2026, but neither party has confirmed that publicly.
Sources & Methodology
This profile separates verifiable facts from estimates and public claims. Cash game careers involve significant untracked action.
How we handle net worth
Net worth is not publicly confirmed for most poker players, including Sashimi. Figures are estimates that may vary due to private cash games, staking, sponsorship terms and non-public results.
How we report earnings
Tracked livestream earnings are gross session results recorded by third-party databases from on-camera appearances. They do not account for staking splits, expenses or off-camera action.
Highroll Poker (updated July 2026) is the primary tracker. TopPokerStreamers is cited for session-level HCL and PATL detail up to September 2024, when its coverage of her stopped. Where the two disagree, both figures are shown.
How we cover controversies
Controversies are labelled as alleged, unverified or confirmed, relying on direct statements and named sources rather than anonymous speculation.
References
- Highroll Poker – tracked livestream cash game results, hours played, VPIP/PFR and show-by-show breakdown
- TopPokerStreamers – session-by-session HCL and PATL results to September 2024
- PokerGO – No Gamble No Future Season 5 episode details and player lineups
- Hustler Casino Live (YouTube) – full episode archives and hand highlights
- Sashimi on X, April 4, 2025 – BC.GAME sponsorship announcement
- BC.GAME Live – sponsorship and ambassador page