Keno was introduced in 200 before Christ by the Chinese military commander, Cheung Leung who used this game as a way to finance his declining forces. The city of Cheung was at war, and after awhile of war time seemed to be facing country wide shortage of food with the drastic drop in supplies. Cheung Leung had to come up with a quick response for the economic disaster and to acquire revenue for his military. He therefore invented the game we now know as keno and it was a great success.
Keno used to be known as the White Pigeon Game, seeing as the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from bigger municipalities to the tinier towns. The lotto ‘Keno’ was brought to the USA in the 1800s by Chinese migrants who headed to the United States to jobs. In those times, Keno used one hundred and twenty numbers.
Today, Keno is most often enjoyed with eighty numbers in a majority of the US based casinos along with web casinos. Keno is largely loved today as a result of the laid back nature of wagering the game and the simple fact that there are little skills needed to play Keno. Regardless of the fact that the odds of winning are terrible, there is constantly the chance that you will win quite large with very little gambling investment.
Keno is played with eighty numbers with 20 numbers drawn each game. Players of Keno can select from two to ten numbers and bet on them, as much or as little as they want to. The pay out of Keno is dependent on the bets made and the roll out of matching numbers.
Keno grew in popularity in the US near the end of the 1800’s when the Chinese characters were changed with , American numbers. Lotteries weren’t covered under the legalization of gambling in Nevada State in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos changed the name of the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the idea that the numbers are horses and you are looking for your horses to come in. When the Nevada government passed a law that taxed off track gambling, Nevada casinos swiftly changed the name to ‘Keno’.
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