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Keno was first played in two hundred before Christ by the Chinese army commander, Cheung Leung who used keno as a financial resource for his declining forces. The city of Cheung was waging a war, and after a bit of time seemed to be facing country wide famine with the dramatic drop in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to develop a rapid response for the financial adversity and to produce money for his forces. He therefore developed the game we know today as keno and it was a wonderful success.

Keno was well-known as the White Pigeon Game, seeing as the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from bigger municipalities to the lesser towns. The lotto ‘Keno’ was imported to the USA in the 1800s by Chinese migrants who came to the US to work. In those times, Keno used 120 numbers.

Today, Keno is regularly played with 80 numbers in most of American land based casinos as well as web casinos. Keno is largely played today as a consequence of the laid back nature of gambling the game and the simple reality that there are little expertise required to enjoy Keno. Regardless of the fact that the chances of getting a win are appalling, there is constantly the hope that you will win quite big with very little gambling investment.

Keno is played with 80 numbers and twenty numbers are drawn each game. Gamblers of Keno can pick from two to ten numbers and gamble on them, as much or as little as they are able to. The payout of Keno is according to the wagers made and the matching of numbers.

Keno has grown in acceptance in the US since the end of the 1800’s when the Chinese letters were replaced with more familiar, US numbers. Lottos were not covered under the legalization of gambling in the state of Nevada in 1931. The casinos changed the name of the ‘Chinese lottery’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the concept that the numbers are horses and you want your horses to place. When the Nevada government passed a law that levied a tax on off track wagering, the casinos swiftly altered the name to ‘Keno’.