Keno was first played in 200 before Christ by the Chinese military commander, Cheung Leung who used this game as a way to finance his failing forces. The city of Cheung was at war, and after awhile of war time appeared to be facing national shortage of food with the excessive drop in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to come up with a fast fix for the financial disaster and to acquire money for his forces. He thusly invented the game we now know as keno and it was a great success.
Keno was referred to as the White Pigeon Game, since the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from bigger municipalities to the smaller villages. The lotto ‘Keno’ was brought to the United States in the 1800s by Chinese migrants who migrated to the United States for jobs. In those times, Keno used 120 numbers.
Today, Keno is most often played with 80 numbers in most of the US based casinos along with online casinos. Keno is commonly liked today as a consequence of the laid back nature of wagering the game and the simple reality that there are little skills needed to play Keno. Regardless of the fact that the chances of coming away with a win are appalling, there is constantly the hope that you might win quite large with very little gaming investment.
Keno is enjoyed with 80 numbers with twenty numbers picked each round. Gamblers of Keno can select from two to ten numbers and bet on them, as much or as little as they want to. The payout of Keno is according to the wagers 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 replaced with , American numbers. Lotteries were not covered under the legalization of gaming in the state of Nevada in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos adjusted 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, casinos swiftly altered the name to ‘Keno’.