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Keno was introduced in two hundred BC by the Chinese army leader, Cheung Leung who utilized this game as a finance resource for his failing army. The metropolis of Cheung was at war, and after a bit of time seemed to be looking at a country wide famine with the drastic drop in supplies. Cheung Leung had to develop a rapid response for the financial disaster and to create income for his military. He, as it follows created the game we know today as keno and it was a wonderful success.

Keno was well-known as the White Pigeon Game, seeing as the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from bigger cities to the tinier villages. The lottery ‘Keno’ was brought to the USA in the 19th century by Chinese immigrants who came to the US for work. In those times, Keno was played with 120 numbers.

Today, Keno is most often bet on with 80 numbers in a majority of American land based casinos as well as web casinos. Keno is largely enjoyed today because of the relaxed nature of gambling the game and the basic fact that there are no expertise needed to play Keno. Despite the reality that the odds of coming away with a win are horrible, there is always the hope that you might win quite big with little gambling investment.

Keno is played with eighty numbers and 20 numbers are drawn each round. Gamblers of Keno can pick from 2 to ten numbers and wager on them, as much or as little as they want to. The payout of Keno is according to the bets made and the roll out of matching numbers.

Keno has grown in popularity in the US since the end of the 1800’s when the Chinese characters were replaced with more familiar, American numbers. Lotteries were not covered under the laws of gambling in the state of Nevada in 1931. The casinos adjusted the name of the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the concept that the numbers are horses and you want your horses to come in. When a law passed that taxed off track gambling, casinos swiftly altered the name to ‘Keno’.