Keno was introduced in two hundred BC by the Chinese army commander, Cheung Leung who utilized this game as a financial resource for his declining army. The city of Cheung was waging a war, and after awhile of war time seemed to be looking at a national shortage of food with the dramatic decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung had to develop a quick fix for the economic adversity and to acquire money for his military. He therefore developed the game we know today as keno and it was a great success.
Keno once was well-known as the White Pigeon Game, due to the fact that the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from bigger cities to the tinier villages. The lotto ‘Keno’ was imported to America in the 1800s by Chinese immigrants who headed to the US for jobs. In those times, Keno used one hundred and twenty numbers.
Today, Keno is most often played with 80 numbers in just about all of the US land based casinos along with net casinos. Keno is commonly played today because of the relaxed nature of gambling the game and the simple reality that there are little expertise required to play Keno. Regardless of the reality that the odds of succeeding are appalling, there is always the possibility that you will win quite big with little gambling investment.
Keno is played with eighty numbers and twenty numbers are selected each round. Enthusiasts of Keno can select from two to 10 numbers and gamble on them, as much or as little as they want to. The pay out of Keno is dependent on the bets made and the roll out of matching numbers.
Keno grew in acceptance in the United States near the end of the 19th century when the Chinese letters were replaced with , US numbers. Lottos were not covered under the laws of gambling in Nevada State in 1931. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the notion 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 altered the name to ‘Keno’.
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