Keno was first played in two hundred BC by the Chinese army commander, Cheung Leung who used keno as a finance resource for his failing forces. The city of Cheung was at war, and after awhile of war time seemed to be looking at a country wide famine with the excessive drop in supplies. Cheung Leung had to create a fast response for the financial calamity and to acquire revenue for his military. He therefore created the game we know today as keno and it was a great success.
Keno was referred to as the White Pigeon Game, due to the fact that the winning numbers were broadcast by pigeons from bigger locations to the smaller towns. The lotto ‘Keno’ was imported to America in the 1800s by Chinese expatriates who migrated to the States for jobs. In those times, Keno was played with 120 numbers.
Today, Keno is typically bet on with eighty numbers in a majority of the US brick and mortar casinos along with web casinos. Keno is mainly loved today as a result of the laid back nature of wagering the game and the basic reality that there are no skills needed to play Keno. Regardless of the fact that the odds of coming away with a win are terrible, there is always the hope that you might win quite big with very little gaming investment.
Keno is played with 80 numbers with twenty numbers selected each round. Enthusiasts of Keno can select from two to ten numbers and wager on them, as much or as little as they want to. The payout of Keno is dependent on the bets made and the roll out of matching numbers.
Keno grew in popularity in the United States near the close of the 19th century when the Chinese letters were replaced with , American numbers. Lotteries weren’t covered under the laws of gaming in the state of Nevada in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the notion that the numbers are horses and you want your horses to place. When the Nevada government passed a law that taxed off track wagering, the casinos swiftly changed the name to ‘Keno’.
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