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Originally posted on FreeGamblingAdvice.com by gambler.

Elottery syndicates introduced the Golden ticket incentive for lottery players back in 2009, since then it has given away many prizes to players each and every month, and then in January 2010 it gave away the first ever elottery BMW mini as a prize to one lucky syndicate member.

The benefits of playing in a lottery syndicate are well publicised with Camelot (the UK National lottery operator) reporting one in 4 jackpot wins are won by syndicates. A lottery syndicate is a group of people who get together to play the lotto in a group. In theory they increase their chances of a win by pooling their tickets. Lottery syndicates exist in most work places in the UK and around the world. They can be organised by individuals or by a professional lottery syndicate company like elottery.

In 2009 the elottery company introduced the Golden Ticket incentive to reward the players who stay and play month in month out with additional chances to win prizes other than just the cash prizes from the lottery itself. The system works as follows, every time a member plays in a game for 4 consecutive weeks they collect Golden tickets, at the end of a 4 week cycle the tickets are put into a hat and a number are drawn at random and awarded prizes.

The prizes so far have included: web books, cash, hardwood 8-seater garden furniture set, complete with matching seat covers and parasol… there’s a brilliant gas Bar-B-Q with all the tools to go with it… a stunning hardwood swinging garden chair… a huge portable garden swimming pool complete with ladder to climb in, filter system and cover… and a very comfortable hammock to laze in the sun. A Holiday to Centre Parcs, a London Theatre Show and overnight hotel stay for two, on a Champagne Balloon Flight, an Indoor Sky-Diving experience for two, a Micro-Light Flying Experience, sports car experience day and 4×4 off road days.

As well as the four weekly prizes there is also the annual draw, where one lucky winner gets to drive home a brand new BMW mini to keep forever. In January 2010 David Jenkins was lucky enough to win the mini, and collected it in front of many of the leading elottery affiliates.

With the odds of winning the lottery so high, regardless of if you play in an elottery syndicate, a normal lotto syndicate or by yourself, the extra prizes make it even more fun as if you don’t win a share of a huge jackpot there could be other prizes on there way to you. Even better news for elottery affiliates is that if you also play in the games and someone in your elottery syndicate business wins a prize subject to some rules you can also win a matching prize or take a cash alternative.

I am sure you will agree that makes it even more attractive to be an elottery affiliates member as well as a player. Imagine growing a elottery business with members all over the globe and everytime one of them wins a golden ticket prize, you also win the same prize. This of course is on top of the commission you get from promoting the syndicates and any prizes you may well win from playing in the syndicates yourself. Elottery has now been around for well over 6 years, and the author of this article has been involved for at least 4 of those, in this time he has learnt lots and lots about affiliate and online marketing.

The amazing power of the internet makes it easier and easier for individuals to market a range of products or services online to make profit, and to create streams of residual income. Anyone can do it, it just takes time and effort and consistency.

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Kevin Halstead from Lancashire won £2.3 million on the UK lottery draw recently but has decided to stay driving the same bus he has been for the last seventeen years. He said, “I don’t want to pack my job in. I asked my boss for time off, a month maybe two, but I don’t want to cut myself off from my friends and I really enjoy my job.” Kevin will also buy a pony for his daughter and may move back into the village of Eccleston where he was born but is happy with his Renault Laguna car he recently bought.

Most of us dream of winning the British National Lottery but what are the odds of winning a jackpot like Kevin Halstead?

The chances of winning the top prize has been estimated as 1 in 13 983 816, which are about the same odds as an individual becoming an astronaut. You are more likely to be struck by lightning (I in 2.32 million). In 1999, mathematician Bill Hartson calculated that a smart consortium could buy £100 000 of tickets each time the jackpot rolled, would have a 1 in 14 chance of winning the jackpot and end up in profit.

The jackpot is only one of the prizes, of course. It has been calculated that an average on one million players win some prize in each weeks draw. To win the jackpot you have to match all six numbers drawn from the range 1 and 49 but you can win lower amounts with five, four or even three numbers matched. Typical values won in these lower levels tend to range from £100 000 to £10 and the chances of winning drop from around 1 in 2.3 million to 1 in 56.7. Indeed, the probability of winning any prize is approximately 1 in 54.

A more efficient way to play would be through a lottery syndicate. In such a syndicate, the money won by any member is distributed amongst the group. This of course improves the chances of any one player receiving some return on his stake.  It is estimated that syndicates win one in four of the jackpots.

There are several schemes available to improve your chances of winning something, but perhaps the most attractive is the Elottery programme. The reasons for this are largely mathematical but for five pounds a week you are given forty-four entries into both the weekly draws (on Wednesday and Saturday) as part of a syndicate of forty-nine players, although any empty places are covered by Virtual World Direct, the parent company, to ensure no member loses out. The syndicate actually only selects five main numbers and then enters these numbers forty-four times into the British National Lottery. The sixth number is selected from the remaining forty-four numbers in order and is added to the five already chosen. The odds of winning a prize thus drops to 1 in 13 (an increase of 702%).

The UK lottery draw is just that: a lottery. There are ways to improve your chances of winning a prize however and joining a syndicate certainly seems to do just that. In truth there are now smarter ways to play the British National Lottery.

On Friday 6 November 2009, Les Scadding and his wife Samantha won £45 million on the lottery: half of the £90 million jackpot (the other winner also resides in the UK). They were just the latest winners of the European lottery named Euro millions.

A European lottery was considered back in the 1990s but disagreements means it did not appear until 7 February 2004. However, it has since been a success with weekly ticket sales approaching 100 million euros. Total sales now total many billions of euros.

That first draw was operated by Francaise des Jeux in France, the Loterías y Apuestas del Estado in Spain and in the United Kingdom, Camelot run it alongside the UK lottery draw. In October 2004, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland joined to make it a truly European lottery.

The draw regularly ‘rolls over’ (the jackpot is not won so is added to that of the next week) and creates more excitement as the jackpot increases. The rules of the draw state that Euro millions cannot roll over more than eleven times so the twelfth week must produce a winner. Normally the winners of the European lottery need to match five balls and two lucky stars but with the rollover rule it is possible to win the jackpot on the twelfth week with five balls and one lucky star.

The euro lottery results show the largest payout was in July 2005 to a lady in Ireland who received 115 million euros after the jackpot rolled over nine times. The second highest was scooped by a gentleman in Belgium who took home 100 million euros in February 2007.

The draws are held on Friday night in Paris and tickets cost two euros or two GB pounds (Ireland and Portugal also play a ‘plus’ option that costs three euros).

As from 7 November 2009, the UK lottery draw authorities introduced the Millionaire Raffle Game to run alongside the European lottery, which produces an extra millionaire every week.

All jackpots vary according to the contribution of the country concerned and are tax-free (except in Switzerland).

Euro millions, then, is very much a European lottery.

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