Keno’s History
Keno was first played in two hundred before Christ by the Chinese army commander, Cheung Leung who utilized keno as a monetary resource for his declining army. The city of Cheung was at war, and after awhile of war time appeared to be looking at a national shortage of food with the dramatic drop in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to come up with a rapid fix for the economic adversity and to acquire money for his forces. He therefore developed the game we know today as keno and it was a fantastic success.
Keno was known as the White Pigeon Game, due to the fact that the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from larger cities to the tinier villages. The lotto ‘Keno’ was brought to the United States in the 1800s by Chinese migrants who migrated to the States for work. In those times, Keno used 120 numbers.
Today, Keno is normally enjoyed with just 80 numbers in just about all of the US based casinos as well as online casinos. Keno is largely liked today as a result of the laid back nature of playing the game and the basic fact that there are no expertise needed to enjoy Keno. Despite the reality that the odds of coming away with a win are terrible, there is constantly the possibility that you will hit quite large with little gaming investment.
Keno is played with eighty numbers with 20 numbers picked each game. Enthusiasts of Keno can choose from two to ten numbers and bet on them, as much or as little as they want to. The pay out of Keno is dependent on the bets made and the matching of numbers.
Keno has grown in popularity in the United States since the close of the 1800’s when the Chinese letters were replaced with more familiar, US numbers. Lottos weren’t covered under the laws of wagering in Nevada State in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos adjusted the name of 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 levied a tax on off track betting, casinos swiftly changed the name to ‘Keno’.
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