Keno was first played in 200 before Christ by the Chinese military commander, Cheung Leung who used keno as a financial resource for his declining forces. The metropolis of Cheung was at war, and after some time seemed to be facing country wide shortage of food with the drastic drop in supplies. Cheung Leung had to come up with a fast response for the financial disaster and to acquire income for his forces. He, as it follows created the game we now know as keno and it was a wonderful success.
Keno was well-known as the White Pigeon Game, seeing as the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from bigger cities to the smaller villages. The lotto ‘Keno’ was brought to the United States in the 1800s by Chinese newcomers who migrated to the United States for work. In those times, Keno used one hundred and twenty numbers.
Today, Keno is generally enjoyed with just 80 numbers in most of the US land based casinos as well as web casinos. Keno is largely liked today as a result of the laid back nature of playing the game and the basic reality that there are little skills needed to play Keno. Regardless of the fact that the odds of getting a win are appalling, there is constantly the hope that you might hit quite big with a tiny gambling investment.
Keno is enjoyed with eighty numbers with twenty numbers drawn each round. Gamblers of Keno can choose from 2 to ten numbers and gamble on them, whatever amount they are able to. The pay out of Keno is according to the bets made and the roll out of matching numbers.
Keno has grown in acceptance in the United States since the end of the 1800’s when the Chinese letters were replaced with , US numbers. Lotteries weren’t covered under the legalization of gambling in the state of Nevada in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos altered the name of the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the concept that the numbers are horses and you are looking for your horses to place. When the Nevada government passed a law that levied a tax on off track gambling, Nevada casinos quickly altered the name to ‘Keno’.