27/11/2008 by admin.

The Euro Millions lotto was initially set up by the national lotteries of France, Spain and the UK and was unveiled on Saturday The 7th of February 2004.  The initial Euro Millions lottery draw occurred on February 13th 2004 in Paris. The United Kingdom, France and Spain were the only nations partaking at first but lotteries from Austria, Belgium, the Republic of Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland also became involved in October 2004.

The Euro Millions lottery or the European lottery, as it is often known, gathers the stakes of the 9 partaking European nations resulting in a mammoth Euro lottery jackpot. With the number of countries joining the European Union on the increase, this will undoubtedly lead to new states signing up to the EuroMillions lottery. An increase in the quantity of people playing the EuroMillions will lead to a continuing growth of the already considerable EuroMillions jackpots.

How To Play The Euro Millions Lotto

Every player must choose 5 main numbers from 1 to 50 and 2 “Lucky Star” numbers from 1 to 9.  During the draw, 5 main and 2 lucky star numbers are then pulled out at random from two draw machines containing numbered balls.

How The Prizes Are Allocated

The odds of winning the top Euro Millions prize is a far-off 1 in 76 million but the odds of winning any prize is a fairly decent 1 in 24.  If no one matches the drawn numbers to win the jackpot in a given week, it rolls over to the following week which leads to an ever growing jackpot prize.  New rules brought in on the 4th of January 2007 and became law on the 9th of February 2007 restrict the number of successive “rollovers” to eleven, with the jackpot rolling down to lower prize levels in the eleventh draw if the prize is not won.

The new rules also established Euro Millions “Super Draws” which take place twice yearly and present jackpots in the region of £100 million.  The difference with “Super Draws” is that the jackpot must be won during the week of the draw; consequently, if there is no ticket matching all the drawn numbers then the jackpot will be rolled down to the next winning prize tier. 

Some Memorable EuroMillions Payouts

• In February 2008, the “Super Draw” jackpot of €130 million was secured by sixteen individuals who matched the 5 main numbers and 1 “Lucky Star” number.

• In August 2007, a 40 year old former Royal Mail postal administrator from Scotland secured a EuroMillions jackpot of €52.6 million.  Up to now, this is the largest lotto win yet in the UK.

• On the 17th of November 2006, having rolled over eleven times, the Euro lottery jackpot arrived at €183 million and was split among 20 fortunate ticket purchasers.

Different Playing Methods

Normally, to participate in the Euro Millions lottery you would have to be a citizen of one of the nine participating member states.  However, with the establishment of lottery ticket sales agents you can now acquire your desired quantity of EuroMillions lotto tickets on the internet in spite of where you are located worldwide.  If you are looking for a boost in your odds of winning the Euro Millions, you may like to reflect on registering as a member of an e-Lottery EuroMillions syndicate.  As a participant in a Euro syndicate you play with a 36 times better chance of scooping the jackpot in comparison to the ticket buying public.  With e-Lottery there are very few geographic barriers to becoming a member and consequently the present membership consists of men and women from no fewer than 133 worldwide nations.   

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23/11/2008 by admin.

The El Gordo (The Fat One) Christmas lotto is the most traditional lotto draw in Spain with the vast percentage of the country’s residents taking part.  As it happens, this draw has turned out to be a national hobby with 98% of Spain’s inhabitants partaking.  This is not really unexpected when you find out that the El Gordo lottery is the biggest prize fund lotto game globally.
 
The typical Spaniard spends roughly 73 Euros in the Christmas draw and in 2008 the prize fund is projected to exceed a massive €2.20 billion.  Here are a number of important features of the El Gordo lottery:
 
· More than 13,000 prizes are paid out.
· It is operated by the Spanish Government.
· There is an excellent 1 in 6 chance of winning a cash prize.
· All prizes are paid out right away and are tax exempt for Spanish citizens.
· 70% of total ticket sales are paid out in cash prizes.
 
Since December 1812 the Christmas lottery has operated in precisely the same manner year on year.  Two big sphere-shaped containers are used; one of them contains tens of thousands of small wooden balls representing all ticket numbers; the other one contains a smaller quantity of wooden balls representing the prizes to be drawn. In the Lotería Nacional hall in Madrid, pupils of the San Ildefonso School (formerly reserved for orphans of public servants) draw the numbers and corresponding prizes, singing the results out loud in front of the public while Spanish radio and television stations transmit the occasion. 

Owing to the considerable quantity of numbers and prizes, this process takes roughly three hours to finish.  In recent years, in excess of 4,800 individual numbers have won at least €1,000 per billete (€100 per décimo) in the Christmas draw.  Those who do not win often make the predictable comment that “it’s health that really matters”. Players who simply recoup their entry fee will often re-invest the winnings in a ticket for El Niño, the second most important draw, held on the 6th of January each year.

The two vessel routine is the traditional way of drawing the numbers in Spanish lotteries but this system is now kept solely for the legendary Christmas lotto draw.  The remainder of the weekly draws as well as the five other yearly El Gordo draws utilize five vessels with ten balls in each, from where the winning numbers are pulled out.

Lotto shops in Spain mostly only sell tickets for one or two numbers, so the winners of the largest prizes often live in the same city or district or work for the same corporation.  In 2005, the winning number was sold in the town of Vic in Catalonia (population 37,825), whose inhabitants scooped in the region of €500 million.

For many years, you could only participate in the El Gordo if you were a Spanish resident.  However, with the introduction of lottery ticket sales agents you now have the opportunity to partake in this globally celebrated Spanish lottery regardless of where you live globally.  Some international El Gordo syndicates have also been set up to not only allow more people access to this lottery but to improve their odds of collecting cash prizes also.

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11/11/2008 by admin.

It is a simple fact that a lottery syndicate is quite simply the wisest way to play in any lotto if you are searching for a way to enhance your probability of winning some serious lottery cash. In reality, in excess of one quarter of all lotto jackpot wins are picked up by lotto syndicates. These lottery syndicates are more often than not put together by groups of work associates or friends who have the one ambition of enhancing their odds of scooping some lotto cash. Working together in this way gives each participant of the syndicate more chances of winning while at the same time ensuring that each person’s spend is kept to a minimum.

Playing the lottery as a member of a syndicate can come with a sizeable odds benefit markedly if the syndicate has a greater number of people partaking. Conversely, being a syndicate member does have its downside.

The first and possibly the most obvious negative feature of a syndicate is the fact that all winnings are divided between all players in the syndicate equally. Therefore, the larger quantity of syndicate members there are, the less cash each of these members will receive. Owing to this, a sizable lotto syndicate success may only create enough prize money for each member to pay for a vacation or a new computer; but definitely not sufficient to pack in your job and buy a private jet! As long as every syndicate member is aware of this prospect then everybody should be cheerful.

The second catch with lotto syndicates directly relates to the point made above. Stories can occasionally be seen in the press relating to a greedy syndicate member(s) who is reluctant to pay out the syndicate winnings to colleagues and instead tries to keep it. This can undoubtedly be a huge setback if the syndicate has been formed without using a legally binding syndicate contract. If this is the state of affairs, each of the aggrieved members has then got to provide evidence in legal terms that they have actually been ripped off. There have also been cases where a syndicate member has lost their portion of a syndicate win owing to delayed or non payment of their entry payment. Situations like these often lead to legal action.

The third snag that may develop if no proper syndicate agreement is in place is that of inheritance tax issues. If the leader of the syndicate collects the prize money and then “gifts” every member their equal share, then this tax could become a reality for every syndicate member.

Problems such as this can be reduced therefore simplifying the whole process. If the syndicate is formed using a syndicate agreement that is legally binding then any of the scenarios emphasized here will no longer be an issue. These agreements can be downloaded from your lottery provider’s website and in many cases can be picked up from your lotto retailer.

There is no real doubt that the benefits of joining a lotto syndicate far outweigh the negative aspects involved. If the syndicate is registered in the correct and legal way as mentioned, the only things you truly have to worry about are paying your money each week and thinking about what you will do with the funds when your lottery syndicate gets lucky.

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04/11/2008 by admin.

At some stage in December 2008 eLottery will be adding the El Gordo to its suite of lotteries giving individuals worldwide a vastly improved opportunity of receiving a share in this huge Spanish lottery prize fund.

If this is the first time you have heard about the Elgordo lottery, let me highlight just how big a deal 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 enormous interest generated by the Christmas draw each year.  Believe it or not, 98% of the population play this Spanish National lottery every Christmas.  

There are several fundamental reasons why so many Spaniards partake in the Christmas El Gordo draw.  Firstly, there is the incentive of the biggest lotto prize fund of any worldwide lottery game - 2.20 Billion Euros!  Secondly, there are 13,332 cash prizes to be won.  Lastly, the chances of grabbing a cash prize in the Christmas draw are a very generous 1 in 6.     

With the level of interest that is paid to the Christmas El Gordo lottery game, loads of people are unaware that there are 5 additional El Gordo draws every year also.  These take place in January, March, May, July and November.  Even though these five games do not enjoy the massive prize fund of the Christmas game, they are considerable nonetheless, ranging from 78 million Euros to 655 million Euros.  In addition, these games present almost 3 times as many prizes as the Christmas draw and odds of picking up a cash prize of a hugely achievable 1 in 3.  

The Spanish Christmas Lottery operates differently to the majority of other worldwide lotteries. A whole ticket ‘billete’ is very expensive, costing 200 Euros.  However, these tickets are split up into ten ‘decimos’ (tenths) each costing 20 Euros.  When buying your tickets you have the choice of purchasing one decimo, a complete ticket, or a share of a ticket.  If you don’t acquire the whole ticket, somebody else will buy the rest of your ticket.  For example, if you obtain two decimos, somebody else buys three and somebody else buys five decimos and your ticket scoops 1000 Euros, then you will secure 200 Euros, 300 Euros and 500 Euros respectively.  Due to the outlay of buying a complete ticket, it is very common for families and friends to pool their lottery funds and each person purchase a single ‘decimo’ (tenth).

The odds of collecting a cash prize in the El Gordo lottery are excellent 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 chance of sharing cash prizes in each draw.

Discover the range of benefits of playing the El Gordo as an e-Lottery syndicate member and revel in the excitement of this monstrous Spanish National lottery.

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30/10/2008 by admin.

Here are five important tips to consider next time you play the lottery. These suggestions will not boost your chances of success but they can radically increase the sum you secure if you do hit the jackpot.

These five lottery winning tips are based on avoiding the way a lot of other people pick their numbers.  If you choose your numbers in a way that very few other people do, if you should be lucky enough to hit the jackpot you will not have to split it with numerous other winners.  If you do make the blunder of picking your numbers in a similar fashion as countless other people, you could win only a fraction of the jackpot prize.

Here are the useful tips for making sure that your lottery jackpot is the sum of money dreams are made of:

1. Don’t pick numbers that have already won, especially if they are from a recent draw. Countless players think that winning numbers are in some way lucky and consequently more likely be drawn again; obviously this isn’t true but many of the population still choose their numbers in this way.

2. Don’t decide on numbers based on sequences, such as 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 or 01, 11, 21, 31, 41, 49.  Many people love number patterns and you would be staggered at just how many people pick their numbers via this routine every single week.

3. Do not settle on numbers that have been suggested by a lottery tips service; just imagine how many other players will go with these numbers!

4. Don’t settle on numbers relating to family birthdays.  Huge numbers of lotto players select their birthday or the birthday of a friend when selecting lotto numbers.  But as we all know there are only 31 days maximum in a month which means an awful lot of people decide on all their numbers from that range.

5. Do not pick your numbers in a pattern layout on your play slip such as diagonal or straight lines in any direction.  This is a very simple way of selecting your numbers which means that a large number of people are almost certainly using the same selection method.

The easiest, fastest and safest way to pick better lottery numbers is to select them completely at random.  How you go about this random selection is completely your choice.  One option is to jot down the numbers for your selected lotto on different scraps of paper and then extract them from a bag; by choosing this sort of selection process you really are guaranteeing that your numbers are randomly picked.  Choosing your numbers using such a method by no means avoids the potential of ending up with a poor set of numbers but it without doubt limits the possibility of you having to share a lotto win with a selection of other lucky winners.

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25/10/2008 by admin.

Would you be interested in a business opportunity that costs only £9.99 annually and allows you to tap into the massive global lottery market? 

As soon as you sign up to the e-Lottery affiliate programme you will notice just how painless it is to manage your own lotto business on a part-time or full-time basis from the security of your house.  You can go ahead and build a useful part-time income or a major full time income promoting e-lottery products and services.

e-Lottery offers a low-cost start-up with high residual commissions on player subscriptions and the opportunity to build a sales team and earn rewards based on team volume generated from player subscriptions.  You receive a fantastic affiliate website with a  back office and all the assistance and support you could wish for.  Running you own web-based business really doesn’t get any easier than this.

A huge number of people play the UK lotto and/or the Euro Millions lotto every week and the e-Lottery syndicate system is a great way for you to earn on-going monthly commissions simply from showing these people a smarter way to play two of the World’s biggest lotteries.

There are many ways to build your e-Lottery business

The e-Lottery pay plan is available to all affiliates who respect the guidelines set out by the company.  As you progress to the higher ranks in e-Lottery, the compensation plan rewards you more for helping your affiliate members build their e-Lottery groups.  As you go about the building of your e-Lottery business, you will have the assistance of your sponsor as well as a number of more senior up line members.  What’s more, you also have the multi-lingual customer support staff who can assist you via telephone or email.

The various available commissions

Personal Player Volume (PPV) Commission
For each person you introduce to eLottery, you will make 20% ongoing commission for the duration that each individual continues to pay their subscription.

Group Player Volume (GPV) Commission
Once your team of affiliates commence their recruitment activities, you will be paid a 5% override commission on the total player volume in your team.  The levels on which you are paid commission depend on what your status is within the compensation plan.

Global Revenue Share (GRS)

If you choose to take the e-Lottery affiliate programme seriously and accomplish the more major positions in the pay plan, a brand new bonus awaits you.  Global revenue share (GRS) is a bonus that consists of a percentage of all e-Lottery monthly revenues which is then set aside and shared out amongst all qualifying affiliates. 

The following benefits are available to all e-Lottery affiliates:

1. Your very own high end website with unique URL and guest login
2. Automated email ‘Prospector’, genealogy and other management and tracking tools
3. Online statement facility which enables you to track all payments received
4. Affiliate news statement with success stories, events, news and various suggestions on how to develop you business
5. A selection of payment options available for people registering in your downline
6. Player and Affiliate testimonial movies
7. Personal assistance from your sponsor and “up line”
8. Access to a whole suite of online and off line promotional tools to help your business building activities
9. Access to ‘getting started’ website to help guide you as you build an understanding of the business
10. Multi-lingual member support team
11. Affiliate training days and web-based conferences

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25/10/2008 by admin.

If you are like me then you probably enjoy playing the lottery but are still waiting for the large win. You may even be frustrated you never manage to grab many of the smaller prizes either.

I was once one of those frustrated lottery players also.

Although every person knows that the chances of grabbing the jackpot are extremely distant - many thousands of citizens still win smaller cash sums on games like the UK National Lottery every week. I just didn’t seem to be one of them.  That was until I started to discover some of the secrets a few select people in the know are using every week to -

a) massively boost  their odds of collecting the jackpot and
b) win smaller prizes on a more frequently

So, just what are these secrets?

A simple way of improving your odds of winning is to simply purchase more entries.  But that means you have to spend more cash and

However, there is way of picking up a lot more entries into the lottery without having to spend a fortune. 

Now I have read many terrible stories about lotto syndicates winning a considerable cash payout and someone running off with the winnings or members suing eachother in the law courts.

These issues can be avoided if you become a member of a well organised lottery syndicate; better still, a well organised lotto syndicate that uses a proven mathematical formula that lets you win more with the same numbers than you would had you played alone.

I know what you’re thinking, how is this possible? If you have to share out your winnings as a member of a lotto syndicate how can you win more with the same numbers?

I will try and explain…

As a member of an e-Lottery syndicate you can combine your spending power and play with an incredible odds advantage.

To play the UK lotto you pick six numbers from 1 to 49 inclusive.. Now lets say that you are part of a lottery syndicate with totalling 49 members. Each week the lotto syndicate maintains the same five numbers and uses its spending power to obtain 44 tickets.

Why 44?

If you have to to select six numbers per draw, and you already have five numbers, then all you are required to do is acquire 44 tickets using the 44 numbers you don’t already have as your sixth number.

The genius behind this approach is you are continually guaranteed to match at least one number in each draw.  If you are participating in the UK National lotto you now only need to match 2 numbers to secure a cash prize and 5 to share the jackpot.

The e-Lottery syndicate system has been designed in such a way that means that when your syndicate wins it wins on many lines resulting in you collecting a larger percentage of the overall prize fund.

The odds improvement for playing as a constituent of an e-Lottery syndicate are huge; your chances of scooping a cash prize in the UK National lottery are 733% better than buying a ticket the normal way.

You can probably now see the true benefits of joining forces and participating as a member of a well run lottery syndicate.

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22/10/2008 by admin.

The lottery is a game of chance with the odds heavily stacked against you.  In the UK lottery for example, the chances of winning the jackpot by picking all 6 numbers from 1 to 49 is around 14 million to 1.  If you choose to play the Euromillions the odds are even more distant at 1 in 76 million.  So how do you make the odds of a lottery win lower?

If you trawl the internet you will stumble on loads of websites offering you information on how to improve your chances of winning the lottery; these methods range from the unrealistic to the believable and most will cost you the purchase of many lottery tickets to discover just how plausible they are.  You will see software programs that keep databases of all the lotto number machines and ball sets used in each draw that statistically analyse the frequency of each number appearing in a lottery draw.  Such systems then produce the sets of numbers that have done best statistically in the past.

There is another bunch of products that will gladly take your money in return for their writers’ own system of picking winning numbers for which they will show proof of their lottery playing success.  A number of will sell you their set of numbers which they declare have won frequently over several months.  And if you are truly desperate to win the lottery you could even pay to have lucky spells cast for you by modern witchcraft practitioners; or buy charms that vow to influence the outcome of the lottery draws in your favour.

But are there any genuine ways in which to boost your lottery winning chances?

The answer is yes and one of the most obvious and overlooked methods is to join a lottery syndicate.  As a syndicate member you bring together all your entry fees to buy a greater  number of tickets in your desired lotto game.  This of course gives you and your syndicate members a much better chance of scooping some lottery cash.  Naturally the negative side of joining a lottery syndicate is that you have to distribute all winnings with every other syndicate member.  It is also advisable to build your syndicate membership with individuals that you know well and above all trust; but only you can make this choice.

If you want total peace of mind, take a close look at the e-Lottery syndicate system.  e-Lottery offers players of the UK lottery and Euro Millions a significant advantage owing to the way in which the syndicates have been designed.  If you choose to play the UK lottery, your syndicate plays with one number guaranteed in each draw; this equates to a 733% advantage that your syndicate holds over the ticket buying public.  If you opt to play the Euromillions, both “Lucky Star” numbers are guaranteed in each draw meaning that your syndicate plays with an even greater 3600% advantage over all ticket purchasers. 

Whichever way you view it the lotto is a risk and the odds are stacked against you but you can reduce those odds by working with others in a well run lottery syndicate.

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