Lee Asher

In 2016 Lee became the youngest ever President of 52 Plus Joker, the American Playing Card Collectors Club. He is the current President, and also actively involved in the publication of their magazine, Card Culture.

Lee Asher was a guest on the iTricks.com podcast for the week of 12/10/07.

Lee Asher was the 2001 special guest at Sorcerers Safari Magic Camp.

He attended Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland until 1994, and then the University of Nevada/Las Vegas, which he graduated with honors. During this time, he would often sneak into casinos like the Golden Nugget. Here, he would watch master magician Michael Skinner who would later influence his magic. After jobs as magic demo man at the Magic Mansion, he was hired to work at Caesars Magical Empire in Caesars Palace performing card magic, from 1996 to 1997. He worked with world famous magicians like Earl Nelson, Jeff McBride, Chappy Brazil, Joey Burton, Daryl, Michael Ammar, Jonathan Pendragon, and many more. His official character title was 'Cardius Sharkus'. Once work was over, he finished school - officially graduating from university in 1999.

He is the first place International Brotherhood of Magicians Junior Close-up Champion (1991 and 1992), and was a featured lecturer at the inaugural Session Convention, a British convention for close-up magicians, in 2006.

Lee Asher (born 1976) is a close-up magician noted for originating new card tricks and hypnotic sleight of hand moves.

Lee Asher was born in Fort Lauderdale, near Miami in southern Florida, to Louise and her husband, Mark Horowitz. He is the older of two children and has a sister, Alexis. His father managed an optometric practice, and as a boy he would learn magic from Al Flosso and Lou Tannen in New York City in the 1960s.