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The El Gordo happens to be the worlds most celebrated lottery, no other country in the world host’s a show as impressive as Spain for their lottery. Every year in December the run up to Christmas you will find Spain’s finest in preparation to entertain a very large ordinance at the el gordo including the television and radio crew’s.
Most of Spain’s population play the El Gordo with many family’s getting together and pooling their spending power to buy a whole load of tickets. All the fuss over the El Gordo is not with out good reason, having a very large prize fund may very well have something to do with it. The El Gordo Jackpot has seen prize funds in excess of 2.2 Billion Euros making it the largest in the world. It is not uncommon for an individual who as won a large prize in the elgordo to kindly donate some of it to their town or village.
El Gordo Tradition
The Lottery its self goes right back to 1816, alive with tradition has always operated in the same way. Two spherical containers will be taken from storage and unveiled, both containing wooden balls. In one spherical container there will be 10’s of thousands of them. The second contains many less as they will represent the prizes.
Then Children from the School San Ildefonso traditionally sing out loud the lottery numbers and prizes to an audience just after they have been hand picked by them.
El Gordo Odds
Surprisingly the El Gordo odds are very tempting, with a one out of six ratio to win a cash prize. Its quite normal for the el gordo to exhibit thousands and thousands of prizes worth a €1000 and much more. Many Spanish players when winning cash equal to the amount they paid for their El Gordo ticket, will keep it to play in the next superdraw the El Nino. Compared to the elgordo it holds a modest €84 million prize fund.
eLottery El Gordo odds
The El Gordo odds bear no comparison to most other lotteries offering lottery players a much closer chance at winning prizes. However eLottery Syndicates has managed to design a system with players in mind bringing the el gordo odds right down and guaranteeing every member at least one prize.
There are a few differences to note about playing in the el gordo. The tickets are actually called billets with a price tag of €200. Players are not required to purchase a whole €200 billet as they can be bought as tenth’s which are called decimo’s, costing players €20.
It is also possible to buy a share of a ticket. Many families will club together their cash to purchase whole el gordo billet’s. The reason for this being, for 1 – the expense of a billet/ticket is high but it is mainly to keep the billet in the family and raise their own el gordo odds. Should the El Gordo Jackpot be won on any part of the shared family ticket so shall the prize won.
Playing with eLottery Syndicates works in kind of the same way, members will join a syndicate pooling together their spending power raising their el gordo odds, with one major difference syndicate members will have many Lottery Lines entered using the eLottery system.
The el gordo draw happens very close to Christmas being held on the 22nd of December.
At eLottery you will find another 11 Spanish lotteries like the el gordo held at various times throughout the year. eLottery members are quite partial to these superdraw type games as there are jackpots of €84 million and rising. Players find eLotteries system in some of the games guaranteeing them no less than three cash wins.
Claim your El Gordo odds and prize in an elottery syndicate today.
