Keno’s History
Keno was introduced in two hundred before Christ by the Chinese army leader, Cheung Leung who utilized this game as a way to finance his declining army. The metropolis of Cheung was at war, and after awhile of war time appeared to be facing country wide shortage of food with the drastic drop in supplies. Cheung Leung had to develop a fast fix for the financial adversity and to create money for his forces. He thusly created the game we know today as keno and it was a great success.
Keno used to be known as the White Pigeon Game, due to the fact that the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from bigger locations to the tinier villages. The lottery ‘Keno’ was brought to America in the 19th century by Chinese migrants who headed to the States for work. In those times, Keno was played with 120 numbers.
Today, Keno is most often played with eighty numbers in a majority of American land based casinos along with net casinos. Keno is commonly enjoyed today as a result of the relaxed nature of playing the game and the simple fact that there are little expertise required to play Keno. Despite the reality that the odds of winning are appalling, there is always the chance that you could hit quite large with a tiny gaming investment.
Keno is enjoyed with 80 numbers with 20 numbers drawn each game. Players of Keno can select from two to 10 numbers and wager on them, as much or as little as they want to. The pay out of Keno is according to the bets made and the roll out of matching numbers.
Keno has grown in popularity in the United States since the end of the 19th century when the Chinese letters were replaced with more familiar, US numbers. Lottos were not covered under the legalization of gambling in the state of Nevada in 1931. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the notion 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 swiftly altered the name to ‘Keno’.
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