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A key part of the Euromillions Euro lotto is the El Gordo Loteria – and you should want to know more about this part. With payouts that can be as high as 2.6 billion Euros, the lottery claims one of the biggest jackpots worldwide. And yet there’s more. In this lottery the odds of winning something are a stunning one in six, and these prizes might be any of over thirteen thousand different amounts. Pretty good if you hold it against what other lotteries are set to pay out.

There is one draw each month under the banner of the Euromillions Euro lotto. But three months a year are dedicated to special drawings for larger prizes. Namely, January’s “El Nio”, the Summer “San Ildefonso”, and the Christmas “El Gordo” also known as “the fatso”, with Christmas’s El Gordo draw being the grandest of the twelve.

Balls with numbers ranging between 00,000 and 84,999 are not what you expect to see from lottery systems, but this draw employs a unique system using them. During the draw one ball is selected from a bowl to identify the winning number while a second is pulled out of a second bowl to decide the prize value. Thinking of entering this draw? You have two basic choices; the first is that you can get an entire ticket, called a “serie”. There is also a cheaper option; called a “décimo” which is worth one-tenth of a full ticket. Sadly, both both of these choices are comparatively costly ways to play and they won’t better your chances of winning anyway. That’s why many people playing the Euromillions Euro lottery use the e-lottery scheme. This system promises a prize for everyone who takes part. You will automatically be sorted into a team following your choice to buy into the El Gordo Lottery syndicate. These teams are assigned an identifying number from 1-9, the last digit of the winning number in the draw identifying the team that will win the prize. Every member will receive an even share of the money. Everyone then subscribes again for the next month’s draw and it starts all over again.

Some players feel concerned when they hear that they have to share these big pots. The thing is, there’s still plenty to share out when the original prize was more than two and a half billion Euros. There’s no reason to worry playing by e-lottery – you’ll win a prize every month, and on top of that a place in the syndicate is the cheaper approach to playing. Honestly, there’s no smarter way to play.