Keno Secrets

Keno’s History

by Sierra on Jan.10, 2019, under Keno

Keno was first played in two hundred before Christ by the Chinese military commander, Cheung Leung who used this game as a way to finance his declining army. The city of Cheung was waging a war, and after some time seemed to be facing country wide shortage of food with the dramatic decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to come up with a rapid fix for the financial calamity and to create income for his army. He thusly designed the game we now know as keno and it was a great success.

Keno was well-known as the White Pigeon Game, seeing as the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from bigger municipalities to the smaller towns. The lotto ‘Keno’ was brought to the US in the 1800s by Chinese expatriates who migrated to the United States for work. In those times, Keno used one hundred and twenty numbers.

Today, Keno is regularly enjoyed with eighty numbers in just about all of American brick and mortar casinos along with web casinos. Keno is commonly liked today as a consequence of the relaxed nature of gambling the game and the simple fact that there are little expertise needed to enjoy Keno. Regardless of the reality that the chances of coming away with a win are horrible, there is constantly the possibility that you will hit quite big with little gaming investment.

Keno is enjoyed with 80 numbers with 20 numbers selected each game. Gamblers of Keno can pick from two to 10 numbers and wager on them, whatever amount they are able to. The pay out of Keno is dependent on the bets made and the matching of numbers.

Keno grew in acceptance in the United States near the end of the 19th century when the Chinese letters were changed with , American numbers. Lotteries weren’t covered under the legalization of gaming in Nevada State in Nineteen Thirty One. 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 place. When the Nevada government passed a law that levied a tax on off track gambling, Nevada casinos quickly changed the name to ‘Keno’.


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