Keno was introduced in two hundred before Christ by the Chinese military leader, Cheung Leung who used keno as a way to finance his failing army. The city of Cheung was waging a battle, and after a bit of time appeared to be looking at a country wide famine with the dramatic decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung had to come up with a quick fix for the economic adversity and to create money for his forces. He, as it follows designed the game we now know as keno and it was a wonderful success.
Keno once was well-known as the White Pigeon Game, since the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from larger municipalities to the smaller towns. The lotto ‘Keno’ was imported to the United States in the 19th century by Chinese expatriates who migrated to the US to work. In those times, Keno was played with one hundred and twenty numbers.
Today, Keno is most often bet on with eighty numbers in almost all of the US brick and mortar casinos as well as internet casinos. Keno is mainly liked today because of the laid back nature of gambling the game and the basic fact that there are no skills required to play Keno. Despite the fact that the chances of coming away with a win are horrible, there is constantly the chance that you could win quite big with very little gambling investment.
Keno is played with 80 numbers with twenty numbers drawn each game. Enthusiasts of Keno can choose 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 matching of numbers.
Keno grew in popularity in the United States near the end of the 19th century when the Chinese characters were changed with , US numbers. Lotteries weren’t covered under the laws of wagering in Nevada State in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lottery’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the idea that the numbers are horses and you are looking for your horses to place. When a law passed that levied a tax on off track wagering, the casinos swiftly changed the name to ‘Keno’.
