Keno’s History
Keno was first played in 200 before Christ by the Chinese military leader, Cheung Leung who utilized this game as a finance resource for his declining army. The metropolis of Cheung was at war, and after a bit of war time appeared to be looking at a national famine with the dramatic decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to come up with a quick response for the economic disaster and to acquire revenue for his forces. He thusly designed the game we now know 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 sent out by pigeons from bigger municipalities to the lesser towns. The lotto ‘Keno’ was imported to America in the 19th century by Chinese migrants who headed to the US to work. In those times, Keno was played with 120 numbers.
Today, Keno is regularly enjoyed with 80 numbers in almost all of the US brick and mortar casinos as well as online casinos. Keno is mainly loved today as a result of the laid back nature of playing the game and the basic reality that there are little expertise needed to play Keno. Despite the reality that the chances of coming away with a win are horrible, there is always the hope that you could win quite big with a tiny gaming investment.
Keno is played with eighty numbers and 20 numbers are drawn each game. Players 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 grew in universal appeal in the US near the close of the 1800’s when the Chinese characters were replaced with , US numbers. Lotteries weren’t covered under the legalization of wagering in Nevada State in 1931. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the idea that the numbers are horses and you are looking for your horses to place. When a law passed that levied a tax on off track gambling, casinos swiftly adjusted the name to ‘Keno’.
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