Keno was first played in 200 before Christ by the Chinese military commander, Cheung Leung who utilized this game as a finance resource for his declining army. The metropolis of Cheung was waging a war, and after some time appeared to be looking at a country wide famine with the drastic drop in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to develop a quick response for the financial disaster and to acquire income for his army. He therefore developed the game we know today as keno and it was a wonderful success.
Keno used to be known as the White Pigeon Game, since the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from larger cities to the smaller towns. The lotto ‘Keno’ was brought to the United States in the 19th century by Chinese expatriates who headed to the United States to work. In those times, Keno used 120 numbers.
Today, Keno is most often wagered on with eighty numbers in a majority of the US based casinos along with internet casinos. Keno is commonly loved today because of the laid back nature of wagering the game and the basic reality that there are no expertise required to play Keno. Despite the fact that the chances of winning are appalling, there is always the hope that you will win quite large with little gaming investment.
Keno is played with 80 numbers with twenty numbers picked each round. Enthusiasts of Keno can pick from 2 to ten numbers and gamble on them, as much or as little as they are able to. The pay out of Keno is according to the wagers made and the matching of numbers.
Keno has grown in universal appeal in the US since the end of the 1800’s when the Chinese characters were replaced with more familiar, American numbers. Lottos weren’t covered under the legalization of gambling in Nevada State in 1931. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lottery’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the notion that the numbers are horses and you are wanting your horses to come in. When the Nevada government passed a law that taxed off track wagering, casinos swiftly altered the name to ‘Keno’.
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