Keno Secrets

Keno’s History

by Sierra on Oct.04, 2015, under Keno

Keno was introduced in two hundred BC by the Chinese military leader, Cheung Leung who used keno as a way to finance his failing army. The city of Cheung was waging a war, and after some time appeared to be looking at a country wide shortage of food with the excessive drop in supplies. Cheung Leung had to come up with a rapid fix for the financial adversity and to create income for his army. He therefore created the game we know today as keno and it was a wonderful success.

Keno was known as the White Pigeon Game, seeing as the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from larger municipalities to the smaller towns. The lotto ‘Keno’ was imported to the USA in the 1800s by Chinese migrants who came to the States for work. In those times, Keno was played with one hundred and twenty numbers.

Today, Keno is normally gambled on with just 80 numbers in most of the US land based casinos as well as web casinos. Keno is largely enjoyed today as a result of the relaxed nature of betting the game and the basic fact that there are little skills required to enjoy Keno. Despite the reality that the odds of coming away with a win are appalling, there is constantly the possibility that you could win quite big with a tiny gambling investment.

Keno is played with eighty numbers with 20 numbers selected each game. Enthusiasts of Keno can select from 2 to ten numbers and wager on them, as much or as little as they want to. The pay out of Keno is dependent on the wagers made and the roll out of matching numbers.

Keno grew in popularity in the US near the end of the 19th century when the Chinese letters were changed with , American numbers. Lotteries were not covered under the laws of gambling in Nevada State 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 place. When a law passed that levied a tax on off track gambling, casinos swiftly adjusted the name to ‘Keno’.


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