Keno was introduced in two hundred BC by the Chinese military commander, Cheung Leung who used this game as a way to finance his declining forces. The city of Cheung was at war, and after a bit of time seemed to be facing country wide famine with the drastic decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to develop a quick fix for the financial adversity and to acquire money for his military. He, as it follows invented the game we know today as keno and it was a great success.
Keno was known as the White Pigeon Game, due to the fact that the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from bigger municipalities to the tinier villages. The lotto ‘Keno’ was imported to America in the 1800s by Chinese migrants who came to the States to work. In those times, Keno used one hundred and twenty numbers.
Today, Keno is generally bet on with eighty numbers in most of the US land based casinos as well as web casinos. Keno is commonly played today as a consequence of the relaxed nature of betting the game and the basic reality that there are no skills required to play Keno. Despite the fact that the odds of getting a win are terrible, there is constantly the chance that you might win quite large with very little gambling investment.
Keno is played with 80 numbers and twenty numbers are drawn each game. Players of Keno can choose from two to ten numbers and gamble on them, whatever amount they are able to. The payout of Keno is according to the bets made and the roll out of matching numbers.
Keno grew in popularity in the United States near the end of the 1800’s when the Chinese letters were changed with , US numbers. Lotteries were not covered under the legalization of gaming in Nevada State in 1931. The casinos altered the name of the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the idea 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’.