Keno Secrets

Keno’s History

by Sierra on Dec.16, 2018, under Keno

Keno was created in 200 BC by the Chinese army commander, Cheung Leung who utilized this game as a financial resource for his failing army. The city of Cheung was at war, and after awhile of war time seemed to be looking at a country wide famine with the dramatic drop in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to come up with a quick fix for the economic adversity and to produce income for his military. He thusly invented the game we now know as keno and it was a wonderful success.

Keno was known as the White Pigeon Game, because the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from bigger municipalities to the tinier villages. The lottery ‘Keno’ was brought to America in the 1800s by Chinese immigrants who headed to the US for work. In those times, Keno was played with 120 numbers.

Today, Keno is most often played with eighty numbers in just about all of American based casinos along with net casinos. Keno is largely enjoyed today as a result of the laid back nature of betting the game and the basic fact that there are little expertise needed to play Keno. Despite the fact that the odds of coming away with a win are appalling, there is always the chance that you could win quite big with a tiny gaming investment.

Keno is played with eighty numbers and twenty numbers are picked each round. Gamblers of Keno can choose from two to ten numbers and bet on them, as much or as little as they are able to. The payout of Keno is according to the wagers made and the roll out of matching numbers.

Keno grew in universal appeal in the United States near 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 Nevada State in 1931. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lottery’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the idea that the numbers are horses and you are looking for your horses to come in. When a law passed that levied a tax on off track gambling, casinos quickly altered the name to ‘Keno’.


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