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El Gordo A beautiful place and
tourist attraction in Spain hosts the spot for the Largest and Most exciting
Lottery in the World. The Spanish
El Gordo is considered to be the Fat one. It is a Christmas lottery and
operates very traditionally. This Christmas Draw will have as many as 95% of
Spanish citizens playing, with many making a trip to El Gordo to watch the
draw and celebrations live. You will find this Christmas lotto has become quite
a hobby. which will be of no surprise once you see the size of the El Gordo's
Massive Jackpot Prize fund.
El Gordo Lottery
The Christmas Draw Keeps to
it's Traditions
At Christmas when buying
tickets for the El Gordo the average Spanish resident will go all out and spend
in the region of 80 Euros in this Christmas draw, in 2008 the Elgordo Jackpot
prize fund reached more than Two Billion Euros.
You will find below some
fundamental elements which make up the features of the world famous El Gordo
Lottery:
· The El Gordo has well over 13,000 cash prizes paid out, many of them going to
Syndicates.
· The Spanish Government operates this Lottery.
· Players will find a 1 in 6 likelihood to have a payout.
· There is no waiting for prizes as they are relinquished immediately and
tax-free for all the residents of Spain.
· From all the money spent playing in the El Gordo 70% of the Total will be
distributed back as Prizes.
The El Gordo Draw has been
around since December 1812 it has always been considered the Christmas Lottery
and as operated with the same manner of traditions since that time.
The El Gordo uses
similar Methods for drawing Lottery balls as most Lotteries. There are two
rather large spherical containers, One Container will be the home to Many small
balls made from wood, and contain well over 10,000 of them. These balls will be
representations of the Ticket numbers. Container number two contains a smaller
number of balls which will be used as representations of the cash prizes to be
handed out.
The drawing of the Lottery
Balls and matching of the prizes for the El Gordo is quite unlike any Lottery
you will have seen. Traditionally the hall of Lotería Nacional situated in
Madrid which had previously housed orphans of the Spanish public servants.
Children from the School San Ildefonso are set the task of drawing the lottery
balls and matching the prizes. They will put on a spectacular display singing
away and declaring the results of the El Gordo.
They really can be considered brave as they will do this in front of a live
audience, while Spanish radio and television stations transmit Live for all to
see.
It takes a lot longer to draw the the el gordo numbers and indeed the prizes
than a usual lottery as you can imagine. It will easily take over 3 hours until
the draw has been completed. Some common wins in the earlier El Gordo Draws has
seen in excess of 5000 individual numbers winning modest prizes of €1,000 per
Billete and more in the Xmas Draw. A common remark made by all those Spanish
Players that do not win a prize is "it's my health I should be concerned with",
for those luckier players managing to win back their entry fee it is quite
likely they will enter Spain's 2nd most played Lottery held for the sixth of
Jan, the El Nino with prize funds exceeding €84 million.
The two vessel system has been
used through out Spain's Lottery history as a way of drawing and matching up the
numbers, although presently this method is only used for the Grand and time
honoured El Gordo Christmas draw. You will find Spain's other Lotteries
including five yearly El Gordo type Spanish super draws will be using a
five vessel system with 10 balls in each, this method will be used when
selecting winning numbers.
Historically like most other lotteries from around the world until the internet,
it was only possible to play your countries own
National Lottery this has been the same for the El
Gordo. Because of the release of Merchants handling Lottery Ticket Sales on the
internet, every one has access to play in a now National and World wide and
celebrated Spanish Super draw. You will find some Global El Gordo Syndicates
allowing for access to play and dramatically raise the odds of winning some
cash.
Not so long ago if you wanted
to take part in the El
Gordo it was only possible if you were a Spanish resident. Because of
the internet and online Lottery Ticket Agents everybody can play this exciting
and celebrated Spanish Lottery from where ever they live in the world with
internet access. The
El Gordo syndicates with eLottery have
been formed not just to allow greater worldwide access to this lottery but to
raise the odds of everyone playing.
Play the El Gordo With the
eLottery system in one of our Syndicates and you will find your Odds improved
dramatically, in fact every syndicate member of the El Gordo is promised at
least one prize. If you can not see you self waiting for the €2.20 billion
Christmas El Gordo Prize fund take a Look at the Other
Spanish Superdraws, in some players have a guarantee of no less than three
prizes.
Join
elottery Syndicate today and discover the advantages playing the
El Gordo
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El Gordo News Flash
e-Lottery has given members an
added incentive to play the El Gordo, when securing a place in the El Gordo
Syndicate players will also be entered into a prize draw. The main focus is on
the Top Prize of a Mini, however there are also a number of other great prizes
to be won. Many top of the range electrical goods are up for the taking as a
member of one of the El Gordo Lottery Syndicates.
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