Keno’s History
Keno was introduced in 200 before Christ by the Chinese army commander, Cheung Leung who utilized this game as a way to finance his failing forces. The metropolis of Cheung was at war, and after awhile of war time seemed to be looking at a country wide shortage of food with the excessive drop in supplies. Cheung Leung had to create a quick fix for the economic adversity and to produce revenue for his military. He thusly created the game we now know as keno and it was a fantastic success.
Keno used to be known as the White Pigeon Game, due to the fact that the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from larger municipalities to the smaller villages. The lottery ‘Keno’ was brought to the USA in the 19th century by Chinese immigrants who came to the United States to jobs. In those times, Keno was played with one hundred and twenty numbers.
Today, Keno is typically gambled on with eighty numbers in most of American brick and mortar casinos along with online casinos. Keno is commonly loved today as a result of the relaxed nature of wagering the game and the simple reality that there are no expertise needed to play Keno. Regardless of the fact that the odds of succeeding are horrible, there is always the chance that you might hit quite big with very little gambling investment.
Keno is played with 80 numbers and twenty numbers are drawn each game. Players of Keno can select from two to ten numbers and wager on them, whatever amount they are able to. The payout of Keno is according to the bets made and the matching of numbers.
Keno has grown in popularity in the US since the close of the 19th century when the Chinese characters were replaced with more familiar, American numbers. Lotteries were not covered under the laws of gambling in Nevada State in 1931. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lottery’ 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 taxed off track betting, Nevada casinos quickly adjusted the name to ‘Keno’.