El Gordo and a Spanish lottery Christmas

06/11/2008 by admin.

During December 2008 e-Lottery will be adding the El Gordo to its suite of lotteries giving players globally a vastly improved opportunity of receiving a share in this gigantic Spanish lottery prize fund.

If you are new to the El Gordo lottery, let me point out just how big a deal this lotto is to the Spanish population.  The El Gordo lottery has been a national obsession in Spain since way back in December 1812 with massive interest generated by the Christmas draw each year.  The excitement is such that, 98% of the population play this Spanish National lottery each Christmas.  

There are several fundamental reasons why so many Spanish people partake in the Christmas El Gordo draw.  Firstly, there is the incentive of the largest lottery prize fund of any international lottery - 2.20 Billion Euros!  Secondly, there are 13,332 cash prizes on offer.  Finally, the odds of scooping a cash prize in the Christmas draw are a very generous 1 in 6.     

With the level of interest that is given to the Christmas El Gordo lottery draw, lots of people are oblivious to the fact that there are five further El Gordo draws each year as well.  These draws take place in January, March, May, July and November.  While these five draws do not give rise to the incredible prize fund of the Christmas game, they are considerable nonetheless, ranging from 78 million Euros to 655 million Euros.  In addition, these games present almost 3 times as many prizes as the Christmas draw and odds of collecting a cash prize of an amazing 1 in 3.  

The Spanish Christmas Lottery operates in a different way to nearly all other international lotteries. A complete ticket ‘billete’ is very expensive, costing 200 Euros.  However, these tickets are split up into ten ‘decimos’ (tenths) costing 20 Euros each.  When buying your tickets you have the option of buying a single decimo, a whole ticket, or a portion of a ticket.  If you don’t buy the whole ticket, somebody else will buy the remainder of your ticket.  For example, if you purchase two decimos, someone else purchases three decimos and somebody else buys five decimos and your ticket scoops 1000 Euros, then you will win 200 Euros, 300 Euros and 500 Euros correspondingly.  Due to the price tag of buying a complete ticket, it is typical for families and friends to bring together their lotto cash and each individual purchase a separate ‘decimo’ (tenth).

The odds of collecting a cash prize in the El Gordo lottery are excellent but if you opt to play as a member of one of e-Lottery’s El Gordo syndicates you will experience a 20 times better chance of sharing cash prizes in each draw.

Unveil the range of benefits of playing the El Gordo as an e-Lottery syndicate member and revel in the excitement of this monstrous Spanish National lottery.

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