World's Biggest Lottery 'El Gordo' With ?2 Billion Prize Pot Is To Be Drawn Today
The richest and the biggest lotto in the world takes place today as the annual Spanish Christmas Lottery is broadcast live on TV.
The world's biggest and largest lottery worth ?2 billion prizes are out today. The ?2billion prize pool in the draw is known as El Gordo and it takes place at 4 pm in Spain (3 pm UK time).
The draw is being held annually since the year 1812. The top prize called El Gordo or ¡®The Fat One¡¯ will be paying out about ?570 million to those with the winning numbers ¡ª and many other prizes pay out the rest.
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While there are big individual prizes to be won, Spain¡¯s Christmas lottery takes the prize for the biggest overall pot.
The lottery is very popular with British ex-pats bidding to be in with a chance of sharing an eye-watering prize pot. The lottery is so popular that people queue up for hours even days just to grab their ?15 tickets from the most popular vendors.
Some buy them for themselves or as gifts for others. Work colleagues, relatives or friends also pool money to buy them, with their eyes set on sharing the prizes.
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The lottery has had some very exciting stories. Just a couple of years back, a Spanish TV presenter discovered she¡¯d won the Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad live on air while she was reading out the results.
Natalia Escudero, a reporter for RTVE, celebrated on the telly surrounded by strangers as she discovered that she had bagged a tenth of the prize money - getting her 5,000 euros (?4,260/$5,540) back in 2019.
According to El Espa?ol, she told the camera: "Hey, I have a tenth, that this is no joke, that I do many events. When I came here I bought one," before adding: "Tomorrow I don't go. Natalia, I don't work tomorrow." Yeah, fair enough - I think I'd treat myself to a day off, too.
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After this, she completely started celebrating with the crowd and started cheering with the rest of them. The video even went viral when the announcement came out.
Well, can't wait to have a lottery like this in India and well... win it. Wishful thinking!
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