Keno’s History
Keno was first played in 200 BC by the Chinese army commander, Cheung Leung who utilized keno as a monetary resource for his declining forces. The city of Cheung was waging a battle, and after awhile of war time appeared to be looking at a national shortage of food with the dramatic decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung had to come up with a rapid response for the financial disaster and to create income for his forces. He thusly created the game we now know as keno and it was a wonderful success.
Keno used to be well-known as the White Pigeon Game, due to the fact that the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from bigger municipalities to the smaller villages. The lotto ‘Keno’ was brought to America in the 1800s by Chinese immigrants who headed to the United States to work. In those times, Keno was played with 120 numbers.
Today, Keno is typically bet on with eighty numbers in most of American land based casinos along with net casinos. Keno is mainly loved today because of the laid back nature of playing the game and the simple fact that there are little expertise needed to play Keno. Despite the fact that the odds of coming away with a win are horrible, there is always the chance that you could win quite large with very little gambling investment.
Keno is played with 80 numbers with 20 numbers picked each game. Players of Keno can pick from two to 10 numbers and wager on them, as much or as little as they are able to. The pay out of Keno is according to the bets made and the roll out of matching numbers.
Keno has grown in universal appeal in the US since the end of the 1800’s when the Chinese letters were changed with , US numbers. Lottos were not covered under the laws of gambling in Nevada State in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos altered the name of the ‘Chinese lottery’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the concept that the numbers are horses and you want your horses to come in. When a law passed that levied a tax on off track gambling, the casinos quickly adjusted the name to ‘Keno’.
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