Keno was created in 200 BC by the Chinese army commander, Cheung Leung who used keno as a financial resource for his failing army. The city of Cheung was at war, and after awhile of war time seemed to be facing country wide shortage of food with the excessive decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to create a quick response for the economic disaster and to produce income for his army. He therefore designed the game we know today as keno and it was a wonderful success.
Keno was well-known as the White Pigeon Game, since the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from bigger locations to the lesser villages. The lottery ‘Keno’ was imported to the US in the 19th century by Chinese migrants who headed to the US to jobs. In those times, Keno used 120 numbers.
Today, Keno is typically enjoyed with just 80 numbers in a majority of the US land based casinos as well as net casinos. Keno is commonly liked today as a result of the laid back nature of wagering the game and the simple fact that there are no expertise required to play Keno. Despite the fact that the chances of coming away with a win are horrible, there is constantly the hope that you could hit quite big with very little gambling investment.
Keno is enjoyed with 80 numbers and twenty numbers are selected each round. Players of Keno can choose from two to 10 numbers and wager on them, as much or as little as they want to. The pay out of Keno is dependent on the wagers made and the matching of numbers.
Keno has grown in acceptance in the United States since the close of the 19th century when the Chinese letters were replaced with , American numbers. Lotteries were not covered under the legalization of gambling in the state of Nevada in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos renamed 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 taxed off track gambling, the casinos quickly altered the name to ‘Keno’.