El Gordo

The Christmas El Gordo Keeps 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.

you could only take part in the El Gordo if you were a Spanish citizen. However, with the introduction of lottery ticket sales agents you now have the opportunity to take part in this globally celebrated Spanish lottery regardless of where you reside around the world. Some worldwide El Gordo syndicates have also been established to not only allow more people access to this lottery but to improve their likelihood of winning cash prizes too.

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.

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Some other El Gordo Links you may find useful

The lancashire.gov.uk Website informing people of an El Gordo Scam, where members of the Public have received phone calls informing them they have had a large win on the El Gordo

Video at the BBC Website Showing the El Gordo prize draw and the youngsters singing out the numbers.

You can also visit an official .Gov website travel.state.gov to read about how the phone scammers operate the El Gordo Spin