Keno was introduced in 200 before Christ by the Chinese military commander, Cheung Leung who utilized keno as a financial resource for his failing army. The city of Cheung was at war, and after some time appeared to be facing country wide shortage of food with the excessive drop in supplies. Cheung Leung had to develop a quick response for the financial disaster and to create money for his military. He, as it follows developed the game we now know as keno and it was a great success.
Keno was well-known as the White Pigeon Game, seeing as the winning numbers were broadcast by pigeons from bigger cities to the smaller towns. The lottery ‘Keno’ was imported to America in the 1800s by Chinese immigrants who migrated to the States to jobs. In those times, Keno used 120 numbers.
Today, Keno is most often gambled on with 80 numbers in a majority of American land based casinos along with online casinos. Keno is commonly played today as a consequence of the relaxed nature of playing the game and the simple fact that there are little skills required to play Keno. Despite the fact that the odds of winning are appalling, there is constantly the hope that you could hit quite big with very little gambling investment.
Keno is played with eighty numbers with 20 numbers picked each round. Players of Keno can choose from 2 to ten numbers and bet on them, as much or as little as they are able to. The pay out of Keno is according to the bets made and the matching of numbers.
Keno grew in popularity in the US near the close of the 19th century when the Chinese characters were replaced with more familiar, American numbers. Lottos weren’t covered under the laws of wagering in the state of Nevada in 1931. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lottery’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the idea that the numbers are horses and you want your horses to place. When the Nevada government passed a law that taxed off track betting, Nevada casinos swiftly altered the name to ‘Keno’.
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