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Keno was created in two hundred before Christ by the Chinese military commander, Cheung Leung who utilized this game as a financial resource for his declining forces. The city of Cheung was waging a battle, and after awhile of war time seemed to be looking at a country wide famine with the drastic decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to create a rapid response for the financial disaster and to produce money for his military. He thusly created the game we now know as keno and it was a fantastic success.

Keno was known as the White Pigeon Game, since the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from larger cities to the lesser towns. The lotto ‘Keno’ was imported to the US in the 1800s by Chinese expatriates who headed to the US to work. In those times, Keno was played with one hundred and twenty numbers.

Today, Keno is normally gambled on with 80 numbers in just about all of American land based casinos as well as web casinos. Keno is largely enjoyed today as a consequence of the relaxed nature of gambling the game and the simple reality that there are little skills needed to play Keno. Despite the reality that the odds of coming away with a win are terrible, there is always the possibility that you could hit quite large with a tiny gambling investment.

Keno is enjoyed with eighty numbers with twenty numbers picked each round. Gamblers of Keno can pick from 2 to ten numbers and gamble 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 roll out of matching numbers.

Keno grew in universal appeal in the US near the close of the 19th century when the Chinese letters were replaced with , US numbers. Lottos were not 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 concept that the numbers are horses and you are looking for your horses to place. When a law passed that taxed off track wagering, the casinos quickly adjusted the name to ‘Keno’.