E-Lottery & El Gordo Lotto — the Beginner’s Guide
A key part of the Euromillions Euro lottery is the Loteria de El Gordo - and you would do well to learn about this part. Boasting one of the world’s largest jackpots, this simple wager offers payouts up to more than two and a half billion Euros. This is not the lottery’s only claim to fame. With over 13,000 prizes being offered, your chances of winning a prize work out to around one per every six. When you consider prizes pitched by competing lotteries, that’s nothing to be scoffed at.
Each month the Euromillions Euro lotto holds one draw. Even richer prizes can be won at special draws held three months a year. These encompass January’s “El Nio”, Summer’s “San Ildefonso”, and held around Christmas, “El Gordo” also known as “the fatso”, with Christmas’s El Gordo draw being the biggest of the lot. Balls each numbered between 00,000 and 84,999 are not part of a standard lottery system, but the El Gordo lottery employs an unusual approach taking full advantage of them. The system employs two bowls, one being used to decide a winner, while the second decides the prize value.
Should you want to enter there is a full ticket called a “serie”. Also available is a “décimo”, worth one-tenth of a full ticket. This is the cheaper option. Both serie and decimo have an equal chance of winning, although of course their share of the payout varies according to what you spend to begin with. As a result many people playing the El Gordo lotto take advantage of the e-lottery system.
Everyone is guaranteed to win a prize when play the e-lottery system. Just buy into the El Gordo lottery syndicate and you’ll be pooled into teams. With each team numbered between zero and nine, the last digit on the winning ball signifies the winners and they take the money. The prize is then divided among the members. In time for next month’s lottery, the syndicate once again takes subscriptions to continue the e-lottery. Some people are a little hesitant when they hear that they have to share these big payouts. What you have to remember is that when the initial amount is 2.6 billion Euros, a single share is still a substantial return. You’ll find the syndicate system is far more affordable, and knowing that you’ll share in a prize in each draw, there are no worries about losing all the time. E-lottery is the smartest way to go.
