Keno’s History
Keno was created in two hundred BC by the Chinese army commander, Cheung Leung who used keno as a way to finance his failing forces. The metropolis of Cheung was at war, and after awhile of war time appeared to be looking at a country wide famine with the excessive drop in supplies. Cheung Leung had to come up with a fast fix for the economic disaster and to acquire income for his military. He thusly designed the game we now know 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 sent out by pigeons from larger cities to the smaller villages. The lottery ‘Keno’ was brought to the US in the 1800s by Chinese expatriates who headed to the States for jobs. In those times, Keno was played with 120 numbers.
Today, Keno is most often enjoyed with eighty numbers in a majority of the US brick and mortar casinos as well as online casinos. Keno is mainly played today as a consequence of the laid back nature of betting the game and the simple fact that there are no expertise needed to play Keno. Despite the fact that the odds of winning are horrible, there is always the hope that you might win quite big with very little gambling investment.
Keno is played with eighty numbers with twenty numbers selected each round. Players of Keno can select from 2 to ten numbers and bet 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 grew in popularity in the United States near the end of the 1800’s when the Chinese letters were changed with more familiar, US numbers. Lottos were not covered under the laws of wagering in Nevada State in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the notion that the numbers are horses and you are looking for your horses to come in. When a law passed that taxed off track gambling, the casinos quickly changed the name to ‘Keno’.
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