Keno was introduced in two hundred before Christ by the Chinese army commander, Cheung Leung who used this game as a way to finance his declining forces. The city of Cheung was at war, and after some time seemed to be facing country wide famine with the drastic decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung had to develop a rapid response for the financial calamity and to create money for his military. He therefore developed the game we now know as keno and it was a great success.
Keno used to be well-known as the White Pigeon Game, because the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from bigger cities to the tinier villages. The lottery ‘Keno’ was brought to America in the 1800s by Chinese migrants who came to the United States to jobs. In those times, Keno used 120 numbers.
Today, Keno is regularly wagered on with 80 numbers in just about all of American land based casinos along with net casinos. Keno is largely loved today as a consequence of the relaxed nature of playing the game and the basic reality that there are little skills needed to enjoy Keno. Regardless of the reality that the chances of succeeding are terrible, there is constantly the hope that you could win quite large with very little gambling investment.
Keno is played with 80 numbers and twenty numbers are picked each game. Players of Keno can choose from 2 to ten numbers and bet on them, whatever amount they want to. The pay out of Keno is according to the bets made and the matching of numbers.
Keno grew in acceptance in the United States near the end of the 19th century when the Chinese letters were replaced with more familiar, American numbers. Lottos weren’t covered under the legalization of gambling in the state of Nevada in 1931. The casinos changed the name of the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the idea that the numbers are horses and you are looking for your horses to come in. When the Nevada government passed a law that taxed off track gambling, the casinos swiftly changed the name to ‘Keno’.