Keno Secrets

Keno’s History

by Sierra on Feb.28, 2016, under Keno

Keno was introduced in two hundred BC by the Chinese military commander, Cheung Leung who utilized keno as a finance resource for his failing forces. The city of Cheung was waging a war, and after some time seemed to be facing country wide shortage of food with the excessive decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung had to create a fast response for the financial adversity and to acquire income for his forces. He, as it follows developed the game we now know as keno and it was a great success.

Keno once was well-known as the White Pigeon Game, seeing as the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from bigger municipalities to the lesser villages. The lottery ‘Keno’ was brought to the USA in the 19th century by Chinese migrants who migrated to the United States to work. In those times, Keno used 120 numbers.

Today, Keno is most often played with 80 numbers in almost all of the US brick and mortar casinos along with internet casinos. Keno is largely enjoyed today as a result of the relaxed nature of playing the game and the basic fact that there are no expertise required to enjoy Keno. Regardless of the fact that the odds of succeeding are horrible, there is constantly the hope that you will win quite big with a tiny gaming investment.

Keno is played with 80 numbers and twenty numbers are picked each round. Gamblers of Keno can choose from two to 10 numbers and wager on them, as much or as little as they are able to. The payout of Keno is dependent on the bets made and the roll out of matching numbers.

Keno has grown in popularity in the US since the close of the 1800’s when the Chinese letters were replaced with more familiar, American numbers. Lottos weren’t covered under the laws of gambling in the state of Nevada in 1931. The casinos changed the name of the ‘Chinese lottery’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the idea that the numbers are horses and you are wanting your horses to come in. When the Nevada government passed a law that taxed off track betting, Nevada casinos quickly altered the name to ‘Keno’.


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