Keno was created in 200 before Christ by the Chinese army leader, Cheung Leung who utilized this game as a finance resource for his declining forces. The metropolis of Cheung was at war, and after awhile of war time seemed to be facing country wide shortage of food with the dramatic drop in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to develop a fast fix for the financial adversity and to create money for his army. He thusly created the game we know today as keno and it was a great success.
Keno was well-known as the White Pigeon Game, seeing as the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from larger cities to the tinier towns. The lottery ‘Keno’ was brought to the US in the 1800s by Chinese migrants who migrated to the United States to work. In those times, Keno was played with one hundred and twenty numbers.
Today, Keno is most often enjoyed with eighty numbers in most of the US land based casinos as well as web casinos. Keno is commonly loved today as a result of the relaxed nature of wagering the game and the basic fact that there are little expertise needed to play Keno. Despite the reality that the odds of getting a win are horrible, there is always the hope that you might win quite big with very little gambling investment.
Keno is enjoyed with eighty numbers and twenty numbers are picked each round. Enthusiasts of Keno can choose from two to ten numbers and bet on them, whatever amount they want to. The pay out 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 more familiar, US numbers. Lottos weren’t covered under the legalization of wagering in the state of Nevada in 1931. The casinos altered the name of the ‘Chinese lottery’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the idea that the numbers are horses and you want your horses to place. When a law passed that taxed off track wagering, Nevada casinos swiftly altered the name to ‘Keno’.