The Spanish Lottery Sensation
At some point in December 2008 e-Lottery will be adding the El Gordo to its suite of lotteries offering players around the world a vastly improved probability of sharing in this enormous Spanish lottery prize fund.
If this is the first time you have heard about the Elgordo lottery, let me highlight just how big a deal this lottery is to a large percentage of Spaniards. The El Gordo lottery has been a national obsession in Spain for a long time with huge interest generated by the Christmas draw every year. Believe it or not, 98% of the population play this Spanish National lottery each Christmas.
There are several underlying reasons why so many Spanish people partake in the Christmas El Gordo draw. Firstly, there is the incentive of the biggest lotto prize fund of any worldwide lottery – 2.20 Billion Euros! Secondly, there are more than 13,000 cash prizes available. Lastly, the likelihood of collecting a cash prize in the Christmas draw are an excellent 1 in 6.
With the level of attention that is paid to the Christmas El Gordo lottery draw, many individuals are not even aware that there are five additional El Gordo draws every year also. These take place in January, March, May, July and November. Although these five draws do not give rise to the incredible prize fund of the Christmas game, they are sizable nonetheless, ranging from 78 million Euros to 655 million Euros. In addition, these games present approximately 3 times as many prizes as the Christmas draw and odds of scooping a cash prize of a hugely achievable 1 in 3.
The Spanish Christmas Lottery works in a different way to most lottery games. A whole ticket ‘billete’ is very pricey, costing 200 Euros. However, these tickets are divided up into ten ‘decimos’ (tenths) each costing 20 Euros. When buying your tickets you have the choice of buying a single decimo, a complete ticket, or a share of a ticket. If you don’t purchase the whole ticket, someone else will purchase the remainder of your ticket. For example, if you buy two decimos, someone else buys three decimos and another buys five and your ticket scoops 1000 Euros, then you will win 200 Euros, 300 Euros and 500 Euros respectively. Due to the price tag of purchasing an entire ticket, it is typical for families and friends to combine their lottery cash and each purchase a separate ‘decimo’ (tenth).
The chances of winning a cash prize in the El Gordo lottery are tremendous but if you choose to play as a member of one of e-Lottery’s El Gordo syndicates you will hold a 20 times better chance of sharing cash prizes in each draw.
Unveil the full benefits of playing the El Gordo as an e-Lottery syndicate member and revel in the excitement of this mammoth Spanish National lottery.
