Keno was first played in two hundred before Christ by the Chinese army leader, Cheung Leung who used keno as a way to finance his failing forces. The metropolis of Cheung was waging a battle, and after some time appeared to be looking at a national shortage of food with the dramatic drop in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to develop a rapid fix for the economic disaster and to produce revenue for his army. He therefore developed the game we know today as keno and it was a great success.
Keno was well-known as the White Pigeon Game, due to the fact that the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from larger cities to the lesser villages. The lotto ‘Keno’ was imported to America in the 19th century by Chinese expatriates who headed to the United States to work. In those times, Keno was played with 120 numbers.
Today, Keno is most often wagered on with just 80 numbers in a majority of American brick and mortar casinos as well as online casinos. Keno is commonly enjoyed today as a consequence of the relaxed nature of wagering the game and the simple reality that there are no skills needed to play Keno. Regardless of the reality that the odds of coming away with a win are terrible, there is constantly the chance that you might hit quite big with very little gaming investment.
Keno is played with 80 numbers with twenty numbers drawn each game. Enthusiasts of Keno can pick from 2 to 10 numbers and wager on them, as much or as little as they are able to. The pay out of Keno is according to the wagers made and the matching of numbers.
Keno has grown in universal appeal in the US since the close of the 1800’s when the Chinese characters were changed with , US numbers. Lotteries weren’t covered under the legalization of gambling in the state of Nevada in 1931. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lottery’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the notion that the numbers are horses and you want your horses to place. When the Nevada government passed a law that taxed off track gambling, casinos quickly altered the name to ‘Keno’.