Keno’s History
Keno was created in two hundred before Christ by the Chinese army commander, Cheung Leung who used this game as a finance resource for his failing forces. The city of Cheung was at war, and after a bit of war time seemed to be looking at a country wide shortage of food with the dramatic decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to develop a quick response for the economic disaster and to produce money for his army. He, as it follows designed the game we know today as keno and it was a great success.
Keno used to be well-known as the White Pigeon Game, because the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from larger cities to the lesser villages. The lottery ‘Keno’ was imported to the USA in the 1800s by Chinese expatriates who migrated to the US for work. In those times, Keno used 120 numbers.
Today, Keno is generally gambled on with eighty numbers in a majority of the US based casinos along with web casinos. Keno is largely enjoyed today as a result of the relaxed nature of playing the game and the simple reality that there are little skills needed to play Keno. Regardless of the reality that the odds of getting a win are appalling, there is always the possibility that you might win quite big with little gaming investment.
Keno is played with eighty numbers with 20 numbers drawn each round. Players of Keno can select from 2 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 matching of numbers.
Keno grew in acceptance in the United States near the end of the 19th century when the Chinese characters were replaced with , American numbers. Lotteries weren’t covered under the legalization of gambling in the state of Nevada in 1931. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the notion that the numbers are horses and you are wanting your horses to place. When a law passed that levied a tax on off track gambling, Nevada casinos quickly changed the name to ‘Keno’.
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