Keno was created in two hundred before Christ by the Chinese army commander, Cheung Leung who utilized keno as a way to finance his declining forces. The city of Cheung was waging a battle, and after some time seemed to be facing country wide famine with the excessive drop in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to create a fast fix for the financial disaster and to produce revenue for his forces. He, as it follows designed the game we know today as keno and it was a fantastic success.
Keno was referred to as the White Pigeon Game, seeing as the winning numbers were broadcast by pigeons from larger locations to the smaller towns. The lotto ‘Keno’ was imported to America in the 1800s by Chinese immigrants who migrated to the United States for jobs. In those times, Keno was played with 120 numbers.
Today, Keno is most often enjoyed with 80 numbers in most of American land based casinos along with net casinos. Keno is commonly played today because of the relaxed nature of gambling the game and the basic fact that there are little skills needed to play Keno. Regardless of the fact that the odds of succeeding are horrible, there is constantly the hope that you might hit quite big with a tiny gaming investment.
Keno is played with 80 numbers and twenty numbers are selected each round. Gamblers of Keno can choose from 2 to 10 numbers and wager on them, whatever amount they want to. The payout of Keno is dependent on the wagers made and the roll out of matching numbers.
Keno has grown in acceptance in the US since the close of the 1800’s when the Chinese letters were replaced with , US numbers. Lotteries weren’t covered under the laws of gaming in the state of Nevada in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lottery’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the notion that the numbers are horses and you are wanting your horses to place. When the Nevada government passed a law that taxed off track gambling, the casinos swiftly adjusted the name to ‘Keno’.