Keno was first played in 200 before Christ by the Chinese military commander, Cheung Leung who utilized keno as a way to finance his declining forces. The metropolis of Cheung was waging a war, and after some time appeared to be looking at a country wide shortage of food with the drastic decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung had to come up with a rapid response for the financial calamity and to create money for his military. He therefore invented the game we know today as keno and it was a fantastic success.
Keno once was known as the White Pigeon Game, because the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from larger municipalities to the smaller villages. The lotto ‘Keno’ was brought to the United States in the 1800s by Chinese migrants who headed to the US for jobs. In those times, Keno used one hundred and twenty numbers.
Today, Keno is typically gambled on with 80 numbers in most of the US land based casinos along with net casinos. Keno is mainly loved today because of the relaxed nature of gambling the game and the basic fact that there are no skills required to play Keno. Despite the reality that the chances of winning are horrible, there is constantly the chance that you will win quite big with very little gambling investment.
Keno is enjoyed with 80 numbers and twenty numbers are drawn each round. Players of Keno can select from two to 10 numbers and gamble on them, as much or as little as they are able to. The payout of Keno is according to the bets made and the roll out of matching numbers.
Keno grew in universal appeal in the United States near the close of the 19th century when the Chinese letters were changed with , US numbers. Lottos weren’t covered under the laws of gambling in Nevada State in 1931. The casinos altered the name of the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the concept that the numbers are horses and you are wanting your horses to come in. When the Nevada government passed a law that levied a tax on off track betting, Nevada casinos swiftly altered the name to ‘Keno’.