Keno was first played in 200 before Christ by the Chinese army commander, Cheung Leung who utilized keno as a way to finance his failing forces. The city of Cheung was waging a battle, and after some time seemed to be looking at a national shortage of food with the dramatic decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to create a rapid fix for the financial calamity and to acquire revenue for his army. He, as it follows created the game we now know as keno and it was a wonderful success.
Keno was referred to as the White Pigeon Game, seeing as the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from bigger municipalities to the smaller towns. The lotto ‘Keno’ was imported to the United States in the 1800s by Chinese newcomers who headed to the United States to jobs. In those times, Keno used one hundred and twenty numbers.
Today, Keno is generally played with eighty numbers in a majority of the US land based casinos along with net casinos. Keno is largely enjoyed today because of the relaxed nature of betting the game and the basic reality that there are no skills needed to enjoy Keno. Despite the reality that the chances of winning are appalling, there is always the hope that you might hit quite big with very little gambling investment.
Keno is enjoyed with 80 numbers and twenty numbers are drawn each round. Players of Keno can pick from 2 to ten numbers and bet on them, whatever amount they want to. The pay out of Keno is dependent on the bets made and the matching of numbers.
Keno has grown in popularity in the US since the close of the 19th century when the Chinese letters were changed with , American numbers. Lotteries were not covered under the legalization of gaming in the state of Nevada in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos adjusted the name of the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the notion that the numbers are horses and you want your horses to come in. When the Nevada government passed a law that levied a tax on off track betting, casinos quickly adjusted the name to ‘Keno’.