Keno was created in 200 BC by the Chinese military commander, Cheung Leung who utilized this game as a way to finance his failing army. The city of Cheung was at war, and after some time appeared to be looking at a country wide shortage of food with the drastic decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to create a fast fix for the economic adversity and to create money for his military. He, as it follows developed the game we know today as keno and it was a fantastic success.
Keno once was referred to as the White Pigeon Game, due to the fact that the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from bigger municipalities to the lesser villages. The lotto ‘Keno’ was imported to the US in the 1800s by Chinese expatriates who headed to the States to work. In those times, Keno was played with 120 numbers.
Today, Keno is regularly played with 80 numbers in a majority of the US land based casinos as well as net casinos. Keno is mainly loved today because of the relaxed nature of gambling the game and the basic fact that there are no skills required to enjoy Keno. Regardless of the reality that the odds of winning are terrible, there is constantly the hope that you might win quite large with a tiny gambling investment.
Keno is played with 80 numbers with twenty numbers picked each game. Enthusiasts of Keno can select from 2 to ten numbers and wager on them, whatever amount they are able to. The pay out of Keno is dependent on the wagers made and the matching of numbers.
Keno has grown in acceptance in the US since the end of the 1800’s when the Chinese letters were changed with , American numbers. Lotteries weren’t covered under the laws of gambling in the state of Nevada in 1931. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the notion that the numbers are horses and you want your horses to place. When a law passed that taxed off track betting, Nevada casinos quickly altered the name to ‘Keno’.