Keno was first played in two hundred BC by the Chinese army commander, Cheung Leung who utilized this game as a way to finance his failing army. The metropolis of Cheung was waging a war, and after some time appeared to be looking at a country wide famine with the dramatic drop in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to create a quick response for the economic disaster and to create money for his army. He therefore invented the game we know today as keno and it was a great success.
Keno used to be well-known as the White Pigeon Game, since the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from bigger locations to the smaller villages. The lottery ‘Keno’ was brought to the USA in the 19th century by Chinese expatriates who came to the US to work. In those times, Keno used one hundred and twenty numbers.
Today, Keno is typically enjoyed with just 80 numbers in most of American brick and mortar casinos as well as online casinos. Keno is mainly enjoyed today because of the relaxed nature of playing the game and the simple reality that there are no expertise required to play Keno. Regardless of the reality that the odds of coming away with a win are horrible, there is constantly the hope that you will hit quite big with a tiny gambling investment.
Keno is played with 80 numbers with twenty numbers selected each round. Players of Keno can choose from 2 to 10 numbers and wager on them, whatever amount they want to. The payout of Keno is according to the bets made and the matching of numbers.
Keno has grown in popularity in the US since the end of the 19th century when the Chinese letters were replaced with , US numbers. Lotteries were not 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 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 swiftly adjusted the name to ‘Keno’.