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Keno was first played in 200 BC by the Chinese military commander, Cheung Leung who utilized this game as a way to finance his failing army. The city of Cheung was at war, and after a bit of time appeared to be looking at a national shortage of food with the dramatic drop in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to create a rapid response for the economic disaster and to produce money for his military. He, as it follows developed the game we now know as keno and it was a great success.

Keno was referred to as the White Pigeon Game, due to the fact that the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from bigger locations to the smaller towns. The lotto ‘Keno’ was imported to the US in the 1800s by Chinese immigrants who came to the US for work. In those times, Keno was played with 120 numbers.

Today, Keno is most often played with 80 numbers in a majority of the US land based casinos as well as online casinos. Keno is mainly liked today as a consequence of the relaxed nature of playing the game and the simple reality that there are no expertise required to enjoy Keno. Regardless of the reality that the odds of succeeding are horrible, there is constantly the hope that you could win quite large with a tiny gaming investment.

Keno is enjoyed with 80 numbers with 20 numbers picked each round. Gamblers of Keno can pick from two to ten numbers and wager on them, whatever amount they are able to. The payout of Keno is according to the bets made and the matching of numbers.

Keno grew in popularity in the US near the close of the 1800’s when the Chinese letters were replaced with more familiar, American numbers. Lotteries weren’t covered under the laws of gambling in the state of Nevada in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lottery’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the concept that the numbers are horses and you want your horses to come in. When a law passed that levied a tax on off track gambling, Nevada casinos quickly altered the name to ‘Keno’.