Keno

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Keno was created in 200 before Christ by the Chinese army commander, Cheung Leung who used this game as a financial resource for his failing army. The city of Cheung was waging a war, and after some time seemed to be facing country wide shortage of food with the dramatic decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to develop a rapid fix for the economic calamity and to acquire revenue for his military. He, as it follows created the game we know today as keno and it was a great success.

Keno used to be well-known as the White Pigeon Game, because the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from bigger municipalities to the lesser towns. The lotto ‘Keno’ was brought to the USA in the 19th century by Chinese expatriates who migrated to the US to jobs. In those times, Keno was played with 120 numbers.

Today, Keno is generally gambled on with 80 numbers in most of the US based casinos as well as net casinos. Keno is largely loved today as a consequence of the laid back nature of gambling the game and the basic fact that there are little skills needed to enjoy Keno. Despite the reality that the chances of coming away with a win are terrible, there is always the possibility that you will win quite large with little gaming investment.

Keno is played with eighty numbers with twenty numbers drawn each game. Players of Keno can pick from 2 to ten numbers and bet on them, whatever amount 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 end of the 1800’s when the Chinese letters were replaced with more familiar, American numbers. Lotteries were not covered under the legalization of gaming in Nevada State in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos altered the name of the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the notion that the numbers are horses and you want your horses to come in. When a law passed that taxed off track betting, Nevada casinos quickly adjusted the name to ‘Keno’.