El Gordo Eats The Fat One

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Shortly in December 2008 eLottery will be adding the El Gordo to its set of lotteries offering players all over the world a very much improved prospect of sharing in this huge Spanish lottery prize fund.

If this is the first point in time you have heard about the El Gordo lottery, let me demonstrate just how important this lotto is to the large preponderance of Spaniards. The El Gordo lottery has been a national obsession in Spain for a for many years with massive appeal generated by the Christmas draw each year. In fact, 96% of the inhabitants play this Spanish National lottery each Christmas.

There are a few chief reasons why so many Spanish people play a part in the Christmas El Gordo draw. Firstly, there is the incentive of the biggest lottery prize fund of any worldwide lotto - €2.20 Billion! Secondly, there are 12,567 cash prizes to be won. Finally, the odds of grabbing a cash prize in the Christmas draw are a very healthy 1 in 6.

With the degree of attention that is given to the Christmas El Gordo lottery game, many people are oblivious to the fact that there are five bonus El Gordo draws every year as well. These draws take place in January, March, May, July and November. Even though these 5 games do not boast the huge prize fund of the Christmas game, they are sizeable nonetheless, ranging from €78 million to €655 million. Furthermore, these draws offer approximately 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 the majority of other worldwide lottos. A whole ticket 'billete' is very expensive, costing €200. However, these tickets are split up into ten 'decimos' (tenths) each costing €20. When purchasing your tickets you have the choice of buying a single decimo, a full ticket, or a portion of a ticket. If you don't buy the whole ticket, someone else will buy the rest of your ticket. For example, if you obtain two decimos, somebody else buys three decimos and someone else buys five and your ticket collects €1000, then you will secure €200, €300 and €500 respectively. Due to the cost of purchasing a whole ticket, it is very common for families and friends to amalgamate their lotto money and each person buy a separate 'decimo' (tenth).

The chances of winning a cash prize in the El Gordo lottery are first-rate but if you opt to play as a member of one of e-Lottery's El Gordo syndicates you will have a 20 times better prospect of sharing cash prizes in every draw.

Come and discover the full advantages of playing the El Gordo as an e-Lottery syndicate member and revel in the excitement of this mammoth Spanish National lottery.