Keno was first played in two hundred before Christ by the Chinese military commander, Cheung Leung who used this game as a financial resource for his declining army. The metropolis of Cheung was at war, and after some time appeared to be facing country wide shortage of food with the dramatic drop in supplies. Cheung Leung had to come up with a quick fix for the financial disaster and to acquire money for his forces. He, as it follows invented the game we know today as keno and it was a fantastic success.
Keno once was referred to as the White Pigeon Game, due to the fact that the winning numbers were broadcast by pigeons from bigger cities to the tinier villages. The lottery ‘Keno’ was imported to America in the 1800s by Chinese immigrants who came to the US to work. In those times, Keno used one hundred and twenty numbers.
Today, Keno is regularly wagered on with 80 numbers in almost all of the US land based casinos as well as web casinos. Keno is commonly enjoyed today as a consequence of the relaxed nature of betting the game and the basic reality that there are little skills needed to play Keno. Regardless of the reality that the odds of succeeding are horrible, there is always the possibility that you might hit quite big with very little gaming investment.
Keno is played with eighty numbers with 20 numbers drawn each game. Players of Keno can choose from 2 to 10 numbers and bet on them, whatever amount they want to. The pay out of Keno is according to the bets made and the matching of numbers.
Keno has grown in acceptance in the United States since the close of the 1800’s when the Chinese characters were replaced with more familiar, American numbers. Lottos weren’t covered under the laws of wagering in the state of Nevada in 1931. The casinos changed the name of the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the notion that the numbers are horses and you want your horses to come in. When the Nevada government passed a law that taxed off track gambling, the casinos swiftly adjusted the name to ‘Keno’.