The background of Keno
Keno was created in 200 before Christ by the Chinese military commander, Cheung Leung who utilized this game as a finance resource for his failing 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 excessive decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung had to come up with a quick fix for the financial adversity and to acquire revenue for his military. He thusly created the game we now know as keno and it was a fantastic success.
Keno used to be referred to as the White Pigeon Game, seeing as the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from larger locations to the tinier towns. The lotto ‘Keno’ was brought to the US in the 19th century by Chinese expatriates who headed to the United States to work. In those times, Keno was played with one hundred and twenty numbers.
Today, Keno is typically bet on with just 80 numbers in almost all of the US brick and mortar casinos as well as internet casinos. Keno is largely enjoyed today because of the relaxed nature of wagering the game and the basic fact that there are no expertise needed to play Keno. Despite the reality that the odds of getting a win are horrible, there is always the possibility that you could win quite large with little gaming investment.
Keno is played with eighty numbers and twenty numbers are selected each round. Enthusiasts of Keno can pick from 2 to 10 numbers and bet on them, as much or as little as they want to. The payout of Keno is according to the wagers made and the matching of numbers.
Keno has grown in popularity in the United States since the end of the 1800’s when the Chinese characters were replaced with more familiar, American numbers. Lottos were not covered under the legalization of gaming in the state of Nevada in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lottery’ 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, Nevada casinos quickly changed the name to ‘Keno’.
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