Keno was first played in two hundred BC by the Chinese army leader, Cheung Leung who used this game as a way to finance his failing forces. The metropolis of Cheung was at war, and after a bit of war time seemed to be looking at a country wide famine with the excessive decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to come up with a quick fix for the economic calamity and to produce income for his army. He, as it follows invented the game we know today as keno and it was a wonderful success.
Keno was known as the White Pigeon Game, since the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from bigger municipalities to the tinier villages. The lottery ‘Keno’ was imported to the United States in the 1800s by Chinese immigrants who headed to the United States for jobs. In those times, Keno was played with 120 numbers.
Today, Keno is most often enjoyed with eighty numbers in most of the US based casinos as well as online casinos. Keno is mainly played today as a consequence of the laid back nature of wagering 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 always the possibility that you will win quite large with little gaming investment.
Keno is played with eighty numbers with twenty numbers drawn each round. Players of Keno can choose from two to ten numbers and wager on them, whatever amount they want to. The pay out of Keno is dependent on the wagers made and the roll out of matching numbers.
Keno has grown in acceptance in the US since the close of the 19th century when the Chinese letters were replaced with , US numbers. Lotteries were not covered under the legalization of gambling in Nevada State in 1931. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the idea that the numbers are horses and you want your horses to place. When a law passed that levied a tax on off track gambling, the casinos swiftly changed the name to ‘Keno’.