Keno’s History
Keno was first played in two hundred BC by the Chinese military commander, Cheung Leung who utilized keno as a way to finance his declining forces. The metropolis of Cheung was at war, and after a bit of time seemed to be facing country wide famine with the drastic decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung had to come up with a fast response for the economic disaster and to produce income for his army. He thusly created the game we now know as keno and it was a great success.
Keno once was well-known as the White Pigeon Game, seeing as the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from bigger municipalities to the smaller villages. The lotto ‘Keno’ was imported to America in the 1800s by Chinese expatriates who headed to the US for jobs. In those times, Keno was played with one hundred and twenty numbers.
Today, Keno is typically played with just 80 numbers in a majority of American based casinos as well as web casinos. Keno is mainly enjoyed today because of the relaxed nature of gambling the game and the basic fact that there are little skills needed to play Keno. Despite the fact that the chances of succeeding are horrible, there is constantly the chance that you will hit quite large with a tiny gaming investment.
Keno is played with 80 numbers and twenty numbers are drawn each round. Enthusiasts of Keno can select from 2 to 10 numbers and wager on them, whatever amount they want to. The pay out of Keno is according to the bets made and the matching of numbers.
Keno grew in acceptance in the United States near the end of the 19th century when the Chinese characters were changed with , American numbers. Lotteries weren’t covered under the legalization of wagering in Nevada State in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the concept that the numbers are horses and you want your horses to place. When a law passed that levied a tax on off track gambling, the casinos quickly altered the name to ‘Keno’.
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