Keno was introduced in two hundred BC by the Chinese army leader, Cheung Leung who utilized this game as a way to finance his failing forces. The city of Cheung was at war, and after awhile of war time appeared to be facing national shortage of food with the dramatic decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to create a rapid fix for the financial calamity and to create revenue for his army. He therefore created the game we now know as keno and it was a wonderful success.
Keno once was well-known as the White Pigeon Game, seeing as the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from bigger municipalities to the tinier towns. The lottery ‘Keno’ was brought to the USA in the 19th century by Chinese immigrants who headed to the States to work. In those times, Keno was played with one hundred and twenty numbers.
Today, Keno is most often gambled on with 80 numbers in almost all of the US brick and mortar casinos as well as internet casinos. Keno is largely liked today as a result of the relaxed nature of wagering the game and the simple reality that there are little skills required to play Keno. Regardless of the reality that the odds of getting a win are horrible, there is always the hope that you could win quite large with a tiny gambling investment.
Keno is enjoyed with eighty numbers with twenty numbers selected each game. Enthusiasts of Keno can select from two to 10 numbers and gamble on them, whatever amount they want to. The payout of Keno is dependent on the wagers made and the matching of numbers.
Keno has grown in universal appeal in the US since the end of the 1800’s when the Chinese letters were changed with more familiar, US numbers. Lottos weren’t covered under the laws of gambling in the state of Nevada in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos changed the name of the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the notion that the numbers are horses and you are looking for your horses to place. When a law passed that levied a tax on off track gambling, the casinos quickly altered the name to ‘Keno’.