Keno was first played in two hundred BC by the Chinese army leader, Cheung Leung who used this game as a way to finance his declining army. The city of Cheung was waging a battle, and after some time seemed to be facing national famine with the drastic drop in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to come up with a quick fix for the financial calamity and to create revenue for his army. He therefore designed the game we now know as keno and it was a great success.
Keno used to be well-known as the White Pigeon Game, because the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from bigger cities to the tinier towns. The lottery ‘Keno’ was brought to the US in the 1800s by Chinese migrants who came to the United States for work. In those times, Keno used 120 numbers.
Today, Keno is regularly gambled on with eighty numbers in a majority of the US land based casinos along with online casinos. Keno is commonly loved today as a result of the relaxed nature of gambling the game and the basic fact that there are no expertise required to play Keno. Despite the reality that the chances of getting a win are horrible, there is constantly the possibility that you could win quite big with very little gaming investment.
Keno is played with 80 numbers with 20 numbers drawn each round. Gamblers of Keno can pick from 2 to 10 numbers and gamble on them, whatever amount they are able to. The payout of Keno is dependent on the bets made and the roll out of matching numbers.
Keno grew in acceptance in the United States near the close of the 1800’s when the Chinese characters were replaced with more familiar, US numbers. Lottos were not covered under the legalization of gambling in Nevada State in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos altered the name of the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the concept that the numbers are horses and you are looking for your horses to place. When a law passed that levied a tax on off track gambling, casinos swiftly altered the name to ‘Keno’.