El Gordo Syndicates

Spanish National Lottery

In December 2008 e-Lottery added the El Gordo to its product range, offering players around the world a much greater prospect of sharing in this colossal Spanish lottery prize fund.

If this is the first time you have heard about the El Gordo lottery, allow me to point out just how crucial this lotto is to the vast majority of the Spanish population. The El Gordo lottery has been a national obsession in Spain since 1812 with huge interest generated by the Christmas draw every year. In fact, 98% of the population play this Spanish National lottery every Christmas.

There are several underlying reasons why so many Spanish people participate in the Christmas El Gordo draw. Firstly, there is the incentive of the biggest lotto prize fund of any international lotto - 2.20 Billion Euros! Secondly, there are 13,332 cash prizes to be won. Finally, the odds of scooping a cash prize in the Christmas draw are a highly achievable 1 in 6.

With the amount of interest that is paid to the Christmas El Gordo lottery draw, a lot of people are not even aware that there are 11 additional El Gordo type "Superdraws" every year also. One of these draws takes place each month and while they do not boast the huge prize fund of the Christmas El Gordo draw, they are substantial nonetheless, ranging from €84 million to €850 million. Furthermore, these draws present roughly three times as many prizes as the Christmas draw and odds of collecting a cash prize of an incredible 1 in 3.

The Spanish Christmas Lottery operates differently to the majority of other worldwide lotteries. A whole ticket 'billete' is very expensive, costing 200 Euros. However, these tickets are split up into ten 'decimos' (tenths) costing 20 Euros each. When purchasing your tickets you have the option of buying one decimo, a complete ticket, or a portion of a ticket. If you don't purchase the whole ticket, someone else will purchase the rest of your ticket anyway. For example, if you obtain two decimos, somebody else buys three and somebody else buys five and your ticket scoops 1000 Euros, then you will secure 200 Euros, 300 Euros and 500 Euros correspondingly. Due to the expense of buying a whole ticket, it is typical for families and friends to amalgamate their lottery cash and each individual buy a separate 'decimo' (tenth).

The chances of winning a cash prize in the El Gordo lottery are superb but if you choose to play as a member of one of e-Lottery's El Gordo syndicates you are guaranteed to win at least one cash prize. You are also guaranteed to win a prize in the two other big draws - the July summer draw and the January El Nino draw. If you decide to play in any of the other nine smaller monthly draws, e-Lottery guarantees that you walk away with no fewer than 3 cash prizes from each draw.

Come and discover the full advantages of playing the El Gordo and the other monthly superdraws as a member of an e-Lottery syndicate and revel in the excitement of these gigantic Spanish National Lottery games.