Digital Social Hour
How I Built a 15K Client Empire (No Funding) | Ace Rogers DSH #1007
Mon, 23 Dec 2024
How I Built a 15K Client Empire with no outside funding - an incredible journey from professional gambling to digital marketing success. 🎲 Watch as Ace Rogers reveals how he leveraged his gambling expertise to bootstrap multiple successful tech companies, including a digital marketing empire serving 15,000 private practice doctors. Discover the unconventional path of a self-made entrepreneur who turned casino wins into sustainable businesses. Learn about his unique approach to risk management, business scaling, and how he built recurring revenue streams without any external funding. From high-stakes gambling strategies to building service-based companies, Ace shares raw insights about his remarkable success story. Get an inside look at how he manages multiple tech companies, a high-end pet retail store, and maintains his edge as a professional gambler. Ace opens up about his journey from humble beginnings to running a business empire, sharing valuable lessons about persistence, strategy, and turning profits into sustainable growth. Perfect for entrepreneurs, business owners, and anyone interested in unconventional paths to success. This candid conversation reveals the mindset and methods behind building multiple successful companies from the ground up. #makemoneyonline #bettingtips #sportsbettingstrategies #sportsbettingeducation #sportsbettingtips CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:40 - Getting Banned From Casinos 02:12 - Making Money From Gambling 05:00 - The Lamborghini Yacht 07:06 - Gambling Rules 11:12 - Love for Animals 14:07 - Ace's Daughter 14:44 - Struggles Working for Others 17:00 - Passion for Changing Lives 17:50 - Materialism Discussion 20:58 - Gambling with Logan Paul 22:17 - Ace's Stance on Online Gambling 27:38 - Why You Shouldn't Sell Your Picks 28:40 - Winning Years in Gambling 30:15 - Learning Business Skills 34:14 - Addiction and Rehab Journey 38:54 - Intelligence Beyond School 42:39 - Finding Ace Rogers APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Ace Rogers https://www.instagram.com/acerogersceo LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What led Ace Rogers to get banned from casinos?
I found a few of those times, if I didn't chase, I wouldn't have got my money back. So I think with every rule, there has to be exceptions. But if your exception is I'm going back to the cage 10 times, that's not very smart.
Chapter 2: How did Ace Rogers turn gambling into a profitable venture?
All right, guys, we're here in Vegas, and you represent well coming up with the Louis suitcase. Things are coming on, man. Yeah, I always got a hard case. Full of cash? Uh-huh. You're big on gambling, so that makes sense. Which hotel you like gambling at out here?
Whatever one lets me. Now I'm back allowed into all of them, so I like the Aria, Cosmo, Wynn. Got it. So you were banned for a little bit? I was banned for about six years. Damn. They randomly called me up and said I could come back. That's a long time. Yeah. Did they tell you why? I got caught structuring. Basically, I knew how to take money from them.
Chapter 3: What is the story behind Ace's Lamborghini yacht?
I'd take maybe $30,000 a day, but I would cash out. You don't have to show ID if you show chips for $3,000 or less. If you go and you have three or four friends and you make $30,000, you go make two trips, maybe one at... 10 a.m., go back at 3 p.m., you can cash out all $30,000 without showing ID. Because I don't want to be tracked because I know I'm winning.
Now, you do that five to seven times a week. How much money is that, right? Right. Now, you do that over a few months, four, five, six, seven months. Ended up taking $1.2 million from the REO, which isn't a lot for them, over six months. But the thing is they knew that I was structuring. They don't like you bending the rules. Once they know that, they're like, okay, you're structuring.
And I got greedy. I went back a second time in line and said, you know what? I'm going to be smart and not use this $3,000. I'm going to cash out now. They asked me for ID, and that's when they had me. They went back, and this is the guy who's been structuring for six months. They canceled me, cut me out, and kicked me out. And then six years later, they called me back and said I can come back.
There we go. What was your game to make all that? Was it one game? Blackjack.
Chapter 4: What are Ace Rogers' rules for successful gambling?
Blackjack, sports, horses, auto racing, and that's it. Okay, so a few games. Yeah, football, basketball, sports, horse racing, and blackjack. Horse racing. Wow.
So you know your stuff. Yeah, yeah. I think I'm one of the best. Have you always been into gambling? Yeah, forever, since I was 13. And were you profitable at first, or did it take some time to build up?
No, I wasn't. At first, I was not profitable. I would lose, but you learn the game over time, and then I got really good at it. I realized I could beat blackjack, I can beat sports, and I just kept going with it and making my bets bigger and bigger.
Interesting.
And have you had to adjust the strategy, or it's been pretty consistent throughout? It's pretty consistent overall. I have my own blackjack strategy. I only play six-deck. I only play by myself. Quite frankly, I don't play against female Asian dealers. People... People are like, well, that's kind of weird. Well, go to the casino and go tell me what nationality most of the dealers are.
They're all Asian and they're all female. And then if you walk to an Asian female and her name is Won or Win, what are you fucking doing here? Your name's Won. I don't even know anyone named Won or Win. It's like, I'm fucking out of here, man. You're a fucking assassin. I am not fucking playing against you. And then you play so many hands, you realize that...
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Chip count, dealer, pit boss, number of people at the table. I only do six deck. I play very fast, very hard, large amounts. I don't sit down in the chair for the most part. and I play big and fast, and I leave.
Wow, so you're standing?
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Chapter 5: How did Ace build a digital marketing empire without funding?
Yeah, I want to talk about the yacht, actually. It's a Lamborghini yacht, which I didn't even know they made.
Yeah, they just started a few years ago. It's basically the only, there's two in the country. This is the first custom specced out one. It's in San Diego. It's a blue Elios, and I got it about a year ago. Wow. And why'd you decide to get one? I'm one of Lamborghini's best customers. So when they offered me one, I just said, I'll take it. Went down to Italy, specced it out.
It's 4.5 million cash, paid them, and they had it ready about a year later.
Damn. So you bought a bunch of Lambos prior to that?
Yeah, I have, like, well, I have a Strato, I have a Rivalto, I've had the SVJ, I've had six or seven Uruses, I got Urus Performantes, you name it. Lamborghinis made it, I basically bought it. Damn, and you made all that money from gambling? I also, I'm a serial entrepreneur. I own five tech companies, I own a retail store called Aspen's Doghouse, and I'm also a professional gambler.
The gambling has funded all that. So my companies, as I've been told, are very rare because we have no funding. We have no board of directors. It's just I've infused gambling money into my companies. I have a good strategy of making a shit ton of money gambling. And then I funnel it into service based recurring revenue businesses.
off digital marketing so i offer a service and i get paid monthly on that service the main company is called doctor multimedia we have 15 000 private practice doctors that pay us every month for digital marketing whether it's their website their social media their blogging their video their pictures their seo their pay-per-click ads you know all the eight eight different social medias they have
whether we want to write content for them. So they'll pay us monthly. We keep their website up. We keep their email up. You know, we do their tech support. We can show them like texting services for their clients, you know, software for their patients, you know, and, you know, their customer service software, things like that. We can help them get reviews online, you know, things like that.
We can help them get rid of negative views. So all that, all that is, based around digital marketing for private practice doctors, and it's niched out. So once I take my money gambling, I'll throw it into my company. That will obviously create a bigger pile there, service-based recurring revenue.
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Chapter 6: What is Ace's perspective on materialism and giving back?
It means go back to the cage, get some more money, and fire some more bullets. Because if you chase all 10 times, that's not a system. You're just going to go chase, go back to the ATM, and go back to the cage and get more money. But I found that you have to stick to those most of the time. Know what you're going to win. Know what you want to lose.
And then two or three times, I'll allow you, and you have to pick those times, because you're pissed you lost. You're like, I'm going back to get more money. I found a few of those times, if I didn't chase, I wouldn't have got my money back. So I think with every rule, there has to be exceptions. But if your exception is I'm going back to the cage 10 times, that's not very smart.
But a couple times out of that 10, you can go back to the cage, get some more money, and you'll be glad you did. A lot of the time. So those are my rules for gambling. Know what you want to make and know what you can lose for blackjack. And speaking of rules, what do you think about the book in blackjack? I think the only place you can get the book is in the fucking casino.
So if it's in the casino gift shop, guess who's pumping it to you? I play the exact opposite of that strategy. Wow. The exact opposite of that strategy. That's crazy because isn't it statistically one of the best strategies, though? Statistically, over a long period of time on a six-deck shoe, I would say yes. But look at what people are doing. They're playing $5, $10, $20, $100 a hand.
I won't even touch those chips. They're bad luck. So I'm betting so big. It's just basically me and you flip a coin. Let's go. Let's not go over time. Maybe it'd be 50-50, right? If you keep flipping a coin, technically it would go closer to 50%. But if it's just me and you right now and we do four or five flips, guarantee someone gets like four or one, you know, something like that.
So that's where I come in and I'm going to bet big and bet hard. So I'm taking myself out of the probability iteration.
I love that, yeah, because you're in and out quick, like you said. You're probably done within 10 minutes. Always, yeah. Wow. You mentioned luck earlier. How much of that do you factor in?
You know, luck's pretty important. I've got to say I've always been just naturally lucky, knock on wood. So for me, I think luck's a big part of it. Some people are just naturally unlucky. I can sense their energy a mile away. And for me, I've always been a very fucking lucky person, so that's part of it. But a lot of his skill and having fucking huge balls, being like, I'm not scared to fire.
He's not scared to take my bets. I'm not scared to fire any amount of money.
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Chapter 7: How does Ace Rogers manage multiple businesses and gambling?
But for the most part, I believe whoever the fucking higher power is or wherever karma is, they know this motherfucker's a good fucking guy, so I'm going to back him. But it's like Wolverine. Nicest guy you'll ever meet. Bring the fucking claws out. Well, now someone's got to die. But at the end of the day, we all think Wolverine's a fucking good dude.
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You have a soft spot for animals. Yeah, absolutely. You got a three-legged dog, right? Yeah, I've had several. One just passed away a few months ago. And I always take care of Aspen. I didn't bring him here this time. He's back at home with his mom. Wow. What made you so passionate about that, you think?
uh i saw the relationship my roommate had in college with his dog and i always wanted that and uh you'll you'll find like i'm indian descent like you know red dot not feather and a lot of us don't grow up with dogs right and i just someone told me that yeah it is weird so i once i got my first dog i just couldn't stop i've always had i always have four or five dogs at a time they're usually all rescues i've only had a couple pure breeds in my life i'd like to
to adopt. I don't like to shop. And I think that's also a big part of my luck because whatever, like I said, that higher power is, I'm taking care of fucking animals that can't take care of themselves. And I give them really good lives. So that should bring me some sort of, you know, some sort of fucking...
luck in my opinion yeah i'm with you on that i grew up in an asian household and i had a bag for a dog and she never gave me one but so as soon as i moved out i got one and it's been life-changing and it's the best thing best thing if you if you've never loved a dog i don't really want to know you if you tell people oh it's just a dog like fuck you dude it's not just a fucking dog i've got a kid you know i mean i love my fucking dog i love my fucking kid don't fucking tell me i have to fucking love an animal less than my fucking child i love them both fucking equally i have a lot of love to give
so i animals are just always going to be a part of my life and uh you know by passing that down like you'll be able to pass that down onto your children no like they'll be they'll be animal lovers and that's fucking huge because that makes that makes for good people they're so healing man oh you don't a lot of people who fucking you don't need a therapist you need a fucking dog trust me get a fucking dog dogs are therapy 100 i had terrible anxiety before my dogs now i don't have any literally none
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Chapter 8: What lessons does Ace want to pass on to his daughter?
that's awesome yeah my dogs are fucking everything they just accept you for who you are yep you come home no matter what kind of day you had they're still the same i say you leave some guys can leave their girlfriend for fucking 15 minutes and all of a sudden they come not mine but leave their girlfriends for 15 minutes you come back where the fuck were you leave your dog alone for 15 minutes come back
Oh, you're back. That's fucking beautiful. I love that. Yeah, I think I might rescue my next one, dude, because my first two were breeders, but I think there's a lot more fulfillment in rescues.
They really, I think the ones that get rescued fucking know. They know when you save them. That car ride home with that dog, that dog knows you saved it, and the bond you have with that dog is unlike anyone I've ever had.
And I've literally taken a dog home with one of my friends knowing that if anything ever happened to me, and I had thought this before I got the dog, I'm going to make sure he rides in my boy's lap on the way home. Him and that dog always had a special, special relationship. Wow. But I was thinking ahead of time, like, I'm going to make sure he's in your lap so he doesn't really know.
So he's going to think you rescued him. And then they had such a special relationship. And I knew if anything ever happened to me, he would take Josiah. I love it, man. That's powerful. You mentioned you had a kid.
You have a daughter, right? Yeah, her name's Delilah Blue. Do you plan on teaching her all this?
Yeah, absolutely. I'm going to teach her everything I know. School's not important, but I'm not going to let school fuck up my kid. If anyone's going to fuck up my kid, it's going to be me. I figure I'm going to teach her everything I know, right or wrong. Yeah, no public school for my kids, too. Oh, no way. That's the worst thing ever. They just teach you how to be good employees, man.
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