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At some stage in December 2008 eLottery will be adding the El Gordo to its product range giving participants worldwide a much greater probability of receiving a share in this enormous Spanish lottery prize fund.

If this is the first time you have heard about the El Gordo lottery, let me point out just how important this lottery 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 each year.  Believe it or not, 98% of the population play this Spanish National lottery each Christmas.

There are several underlying reasons why so many Spanish people play a part in the Christmas El Gordo draw.  Firstly, there is the incentive of the largest lotto prize fund of any international lottery - 2.20 Billion Euros!  Secondly, there are in excess of 13,000 cash prizes available.  Lastly, the likelihood of winning a cash prize in the Christmas game are a very generous 1 in 6.

With the level of attention that is paid to the Christmas El Gordo lottery draw, many people are unaware that there are 5 additional El Gordo draws every year as well.  These take place in January, March, May, July and November.  Even though these 5 draws do not have the massive prize fund of the Christmas game, they are substantial nonetheless, ranging from 78 million Euros to 655 million Euros.  In addition, these games offer roughly three times as many prizes as the Christmas draw and odds of picking up a cash prize of an amazing 1 in 3.

The Spanish Christmas Lottery works differently to the majority of other lottery games. A whole ticket ‘billete’ is very pricey, costing 200 Euros.  However, these tickets are divided up into ten ‘decimos’ (tenths) each costing 20 Euros.  When buying your tickets you have the choice of buying a single decimo, a complete ticket, or a share of a ticket.  If you don’t acquire the entire ticket, someone else will purchase the remainder of your ticket.  For example, if you obtain two decimos, someone else purchases three and someone else buys five and your ticket scoops 1000 Euros, then you will win 200 Euros, 300 Euros and 500 Euros correspondingly.  Owing to the price tag of buying an entire ticket, it is typical for families and friends to combine their lottery cash and each purchase a single ‘decimo’ (tenth).

The chances of winning a cash prize in the El Gordo lottery are tremendous but if you choose to play as a member of one of e-Lottery’s El Gordo syndicates you will hold a 20 times better prospect of sharing cash prizes in each draw.

Unveil the full benefits of playing the El Gordo as a member of an e-Lottery syndicate and revel in the excitement of this mammoth Spanish National lottery.