Keno was first played in 200 before Christ by the Chinese army commander, Cheung Leung who utilized this game as a way to finance his failing forces. The metropolis of Cheung was waging a war, and after awhile of war time seemed to be looking at a country wide famine with the excessive drop in supplies. Cheung Leung had to develop a fast fix for the economic calamity and to produce money for his army. He therefore developed the game we know today as keno and it was a wonderful success.
Keno was referred to as the White Pigeon Game, because the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from bigger municipalities to the smaller villages. The lottery ‘Keno’ was brought to the USA in the 1800s by Chinese expatriates who came to the States for jobs. In those times, Keno used one hundred and twenty numbers.
Today, Keno is regularly enjoyed with just 80 numbers in most of the US based casinos along with net casinos. Keno is commonly played today as a consequence of the relaxed nature of wagering the game and the simple fact that there are little skills required to enjoy Keno. Despite the reality that the chances of coming away with a win are horrible, there is always the hope that you might hit quite big with very little gaming investment.
Keno is played with eighty numbers with twenty numbers drawn each round. Enthusiasts of Keno can select from 2 to 10 numbers and gamble on them, whatever amount they are able to. The pay out of Keno is according to the bets made and the matching of numbers.
Keno grew in universal appeal in the US near the end of the 1800’s when the Chinese characters were changed with , US numbers. Lotteries weren’t covered under the legalization of gambling in Nevada State in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the idea that the numbers are horses and you are looking for your horses to come in. When the Nevada government passed a law that taxed off track betting, the casinos quickly altered the name to ‘Keno’.