Keno was first played in two hundred BC by the Chinese military commander, Cheung Leung who used this game as a monetary resource for his failing forces. The city of Cheung was at war, and after a bit of time seemed to be looking at a national famine with the excessive drop in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to come up with a rapid response for the economic disaster and to produce revenue for his military. He therefore invented the game we now know as keno and it was a great success.
Keno used to be known as the White Pigeon Game, seeing as the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from bigger municipalities to the smaller villages. The lotto ‘Keno’ was imported to America in the 1800s by Chinese migrants who migrated to the US for jobs. In those times, Keno was played with one hundred and twenty numbers.
Today, Keno is most often enjoyed with just 80 numbers in most of the US brick and mortar casinos along with internet casinos. Keno is largely liked today because of the laid back nature of wagering the game and the basic fact that there are no expertise required to play Keno. Regardless of the fact that the odds of getting a win are terrible, there is constantly the possibility that you might hit quite large with a tiny gaming investment.
Keno is played with eighty numbers with twenty numbers drawn each game. Enthusiasts of Keno can pick from 2 to ten numbers and bet on them, as much or as little as they want to. The pay out of Keno is dependent on the bets made and the roll out of matching numbers.
Keno has grown in universal appeal in the United States since the close of the 1800’s when the Chinese characters were changed with , American numbers. Lottos weren’t covered under the laws of wagering in the state of Nevada in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos renamed 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 betting, Nevada casinos quickly changed the name to ‘Keno’.