Keno

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Keno was first played in two hundred BC by the Chinese military leader, Cheung Leung who utilized keno as a way to finance his declining forces. The city of Cheung was waging a battle, and after awhile of war time appeared to be facing national famine with the drastic decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung had to come up with a fast fix for the economic adversity and to produce money for his military. He thusly created the game we know today as keno and it was a wonderful success.

Keno used to be referred to as the White Pigeon Game, because the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from larger cities to the smaller towns. The lottery ‘Keno’ was imported to America in the 1800s by Chinese immigrants who migrated to the US for jobs. In those times, Keno was played with one hundred and twenty numbers.

Today, Keno is regularly played with 80 numbers in just about all of the US land based casinos as well as net casinos. Keno is commonly enjoyed today because of the relaxed nature of gambling the game and the basic fact that there are little expertise required to enjoy Keno. Despite the reality that the odds of coming away with a win are horrible, there is constantly the possibility that you will win quite large with little gambling investment.

Keno is played with eighty numbers and 20 numbers are picked each game. Players of Keno can pick from two to ten numbers and gamble on them, as much or as little as they want to. The pay out of Keno is according to 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. Lotteries weren’t covered under the legalization of gaming in the state of Nevada in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos changed the name of the ‘Chinese lottery’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the idea that the numbers are horses and you are wanting your horses to place. When a law passed that levied a tax on off track gambling, Nevada casinos quickly changed the name to ‘Keno’.