The Player’s Elgordo Primer
27/09/2009 4:30
on: Casinos + Gambling
When you first come across the Elgordo Lottery, a part of the Euromillions Euro lottery, you will certainly want to learn more. The lottery is noted for top payouts that number amongst the world’s richest - payouts as high as two point six billion Euros. However, that’s not all. There is even more to it you will want to know about. This lottery puts more than thirteen thousand prizes up for grabs, which makes for a winner per every six contestants. That’s very good, actually, by the standards of the prizes featured by other lotteries.
Each month the Euromillions Eurolottery holds one draw. But three months a year boast bigger draws for even bigger prizes. Biggest and most popular of all the drawings is the Xmas lottery “Elgordo“, while the other bigger drawings take place in January - “El Nio” - and in the summer (”San Ildefonso”).
Balls with numbers ranging between 00,000 and 84,999 are not part of a standard lottery system, but the Elgordo lottery employs an unusual approach using them. One ball apiece is drawn from two bowls; the first bowl indicates the winner, the second the prize value.
Thinking of entering this drawing? You have two options; first, you can get a “serie” or a full ticket. There is also a cheaper option; called a “décimo” which is worth one-tenth of a full ticket. Neither option is particularly cheap, however, and of course neither has better odds of being a winner. As a result many people playing the Elgordo lotto take advantage of the e-lottery system. Everyone’s guaranteed to win a prize when they go for the e-lottery system. All you do is buy into the Euromillions Euro Lottery syndicate and you’ll be divided into teams. With each team numbered between zero and nine, the final digit on the winning number signifies the winning team who will take the prize. An even division of the spoils among the members follows. Then, everyone renews their subscription for the draw the following month and the cycle begins again. It’s common to wonder whether it’s worth sharing the jackpots. What you have to remember is that when the amount being divided is more than two and a half billion Euros, a single share works out at a healthy return. There’s no reason for concern playing by e-lottery - you’re guaranteed to win something during each draw, and a place in the e-lottery is the cheaper approach to playing. E-lottery is the smarter strategy.











