Keno was first played in two hundred before Christ by the Chinese army commander, Cheung Leung who utilized keno as a way to finance his failing forces. The city of Cheung was at war, and after awhile of war time appeared to be looking at a national shortage of food with the excessive decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung had to come up with a rapid fix for the financial adversity and to create income for his military. He thusly invented the game we know today as keno and it was a wonderful success.
Keno was known as the White Pigeon Game, seeing as the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from bigger municipalities to the tinier villages. The lotto ‘Keno’ was brought to the USA in the 19th century by Chinese expatriates who came to the States for work. In those times, Keno was played with one hundred and twenty numbers.
Today, Keno is generally played with eighty numbers in almost all of American brick and mortar casinos as well as web casinos. Keno is commonly liked today as a consequence of the relaxed nature of playing the game and the basic fact that there are no skills required to enjoy Keno. Regardless of the reality that the odds of coming away with a win are appalling, there is always the chance that you will win quite big with very little gambling investment.
Keno is enjoyed with eighty numbers and twenty numbers are drawn each round. Gamblers of Keno can choose from 2 to ten numbers and wager 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 acceptance in the US since the end of the 19th century when the Chinese characters were changed with more familiar, US numbers. Lotteries were not covered under the laws of gaming in the state of Nevada in 1931. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the concept that the numbers are horses and you want your horses to place. When a law passed that levied a tax on off track betting, Nevada casinos quickly changed the name to ‘Keno’.
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