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Keno’s History
Keno was created in 200 BC by the Chinese military leader, Cheung Leung who utilized keno as a way to finance his declining forces. The city of Cheung was at war, and after some time seemed to be facing country wide shortage of food with the excessive drop in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to come up with a rapid response for the financial adversity and to acquire money for his forces. He, as it follows invented the game we know today as keno and it was a great success.
Keno used to be referred to as the White Pigeon Game, because the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from bigger locations to the smaller villages. The lotto ‘Keno’ was imported to the USA in the 1800s by Chinese newcomers who headed to the US for work. In those times, Keno used one hundred and twenty numbers.
Today, Keno is regularly bet on with 80 numbers in just about all of the US brick and mortar casinos along with web casinos. Keno is largely played today as a consequence of the laid back nature of playing the game and the basic fact that there are no expertise needed to enjoy Keno. Regardless of the reality that the odds of coming away with a win are horrible, there is constantly the hope that you will win quite large with very little gambling investment.
Keno is enjoyed with eighty numbers with 20 numbers picked each game. Players of Keno can choose from 2 to 10 numbers and wager on them, as much or as little as they are able to. The pay out of Keno is dependent on the bets made and the matching of numbers.
Keno grew in universal appeal in the US near the close of the 1800’s when the Chinese characters were replaced with more familiar, US numbers. Lottos weren’t covered under the legalization of wagering in the state of Nevada in 1931. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lottery’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the notion that the numbers are horses and you want your horses to come in. When the Nevada government passed a law that levied a tax on off track gambling, the casinos swiftly adjusted the name to ‘Keno’.