Keno was created in two hundred BC by the Chinese army commander, Cheung Leung who utilized this game as a financial resource for his failing forces. The metropolis of Cheung was waging a battle, and after a bit of time seemed to be looking at a national famine with the drastic drop in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to create a fast response for the financial calamity and to acquire revenue for his military. He thusly created the game we know today as keno and it was a fantastic success.
Keno once was known as the White Pigeon Game, seeing as the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from larger cities to the tinier villages. The lottery ‘Keno’ was imported to America in the 19th century by Chinese migrants who migrated to the United States for jobs. In those times, Keno used 120 numbers.
Today, Keno is regularly played with 80 numbers in almost all of American brick and mortar casinos as well as online casinos. Keno is mainly played today as a result of the relaxed nature of playing the game and the basic fact that there are no expertise required to play Keno. Despite the fact that the odds of getting a win are horrible, there is constantly the chance that you might win quite large with little gaming investment.
Keno is played with 80 numbers and 20 numbers are selected each round. Players of Keno can select from two to 10 numbers and bet on them, as much or as little as they want to. The pay out of Keno is according to the bets made and the roll out of matching numbers.
Keno has grown in universal appeal in the US since the close of the 1800’s when the Chinese letters were replaced with more familiar, American numbers. Lottos weren’t covered under the laws of gaming in Nevada State in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos adjusted the name of the ‘Chinese lottery’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the concept 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’.