El Gordo

Spanish National Lottery Syndicates

In December 2008 eLottery added the El Gordo to its syndicate system giving participants around the world a vastly improved probability of receiving a share in this colossal Spanish lottery prize fund.

If this is the first time you have heard about the El Gordo lottery, let me highlight just how crucial this lotto is to the Spanish population. The El Gordo lottery has been a national obsession in Spain since 1812 with enormous appeal generated by the Christmas draw every year. Believe it or not, 98% of the population play this Spanish National lottery each Christmas.

There are a number of fundamental reasons why so many Spanish people participate in the Christmas El Gordo draw. Firstly, there is the incentive of the El Gordo being the biggest lottery prize fund game of all the worldwide lotteries - €2.20 Billion in December 2008! Secondly, there are 13,332 cash prizes to be won and the chances of scooping a cash prize in the Christmas draw are an excellent 1 in 6.

With the level of attention that is given to the Christmas El Gordo lottery draw, a lot of people are unaware that there are eleven further El Gordo type mega draws held each year as well. One of these Spanish superdraws takes place each month and boast prize funds ranging from €84 million right up to €850 million. So if love love to play the El Gordo each Christmas and can not wait for it to come around again, you now have 11 other sizable Spanish lottery draws to keep you excited. Furthermore, these draws present roughly three times as many prizes as the Christmas El Gordo draw and odds of scooping a cash prize of an incredible 1 in 3.

The Spanish Christmas Lottery operates in a different way to the majority of other worldwide lotteries. A whole ticket 'billete' is very pricey, costing €200. However, these tickets are divided up into ten 'decimos' (tenths) each costing €20. When acquiring your tickets you have the option of purchasing one decimo, a complete ticket, or a share of a ticket. If you don't purchase the whole ticket, someone else will purchase the rest of your ticket. Owing to the expense of buying a whole El Gordo ticket, it is not uncommon for families and friends to bring together their lotto funds and each purchase a separate 'decimo' (tenth).

The probability of winning a cash prize in the El Gordo lottery is superb but if you decide to play as a member of one of e-Lottery's El Gordo syndicates you don't simply have a better chance of winning a cash prize, you are actually guaranteed to win at least one cash prize in the El Gordo draw. You are also guaranteed to win at least one cash prize in the two other special draws held in January and July every year. If you choose to play in any of the nine other monthly Spanish superdraws as an e-Lottery syndicate member, you are guaranteed to win no fewer than 3 cash prizes in every draw.

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