Keno was first played in two hundred BC by the Chinese military commander, Cheung Leung who used this game as a way to finance his declining army. The metropolis of Cheung was at war, and after awhile of war time seemed to be facing country wide famine with the drastic decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to create a quick fix for the economic disaster and to create money for his army. He, as it follows developed the game we know today as keno and it was a wonderful success.
Keno once was referred to as the White Pigeon Game, because the winning numbers were broadcast by pigeons from bigger cities to the tinier villages. The lottery ‘Keno’ was imported to the US in the 1800s by Chinese expatriates who headed to the US to work. In those times, Keno was played with 120 numbers.
Today, Keno is regularly wagered on with 80 numbers in a majority of the US based casinos as well as net casinos. Keno is commonly loved today as a consequence of the laid back nature of wagering the game and the basic fact that there are no expertise needed to play Keno. Regardless of the reality that the odds of coming away with a win are terrible, there is always the chance that you will win quite large with a tiny gambling investment.
Keno is played with eighty numbers with twenty numbers picked each round. Enthusiasts of Keno can select from 2 to ten numbers and gamble on them, as much or as little as they are able to. The payout of Keno is according to the bets made and the roll out of matching numbers.
Keno has grown in universal appeal in the United States since the end of the 1800’s when the Chinese letters were replaced with , American numbers. Lotteries weren’t covered under the laws of gaming in Nevada State in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lottery’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the notion that the numbers are horses and you are looking for your horses to come in. When a law passed that levied a tax on off track betting, Nevada casinos quickly altered the name to ‘Keno’.