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 declining army. The metropolis of Cheung was waging a war, and after a bit of time appeared to be facing country wide shortage of food with the drastic decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung had to develop a quick fix for the financial calamity and to produce revenue for his army. He therefore developed the game we now know as keno and it was a wonderful success.
Keno was well-known as the White Pigeon Game, due to the fact that the winning numbers were broadcast by pigeons from larger cities to the tinier villages. The lottery ‘Keno’ was brought to the United States in the 19th century by Chinese newcomers who migrated to the States for work. In those times, Keno was played with one hundred and twenty numbers.
Today, Keno is typically gambled on with just 80 numbers in almost all of American land based casinos as well as internet casinos. Keno is mainly played today as a consequence of the relaxed nature of gambling the game and the basic reality that there are no expertise needed to play Keno. Regardless of the fact that the odds of winning are horrible, there is always the hope that you could hit quite large with very little gambling investment.
Keno is played with eighty numbers and twenty numbers are selected each round. Enthusiasts of Keno can select from 2 to ten numbers and wager on them, as much or as little as they want to. The pay out of Keno is dependent on the bets made and the matching of numbers.
Keno has grown in acceptance in the United States since the close of the 1800’s when the Chinese characters were replaced with , American numbers. Lottos weren’t covered under the legalization of gambling in the state of Nevada in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lottery’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the idea that the numbers are horses and you are looking for your horses to place. When a law passed that taxed off track wagering, Nevada casinos quickly adjusted the name to ‘Keno’.