The background of Keno
Keno was introduced in two hundred before Christ by the Chinese military leader, Cheung Leung who utilized keno as a way to finance his declining forces. The city of Cheung was waging a battle, and after a bit of war time appeared to be looking at a country wide shortage of food with the excessive drop in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to come up with a rapid fix for the economic adversity and to create money for his army. He therefore developed the game we know today as keno and it was a great success.
Keno was referred to as the White Pigeon Game, due to the fact that the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from larger locations to the lesser towns. The lottery ‘Keno’ was brought to America in the 1800s by Chinese migrants who headed to the US to jobs. In those times, Keno used one hundred and twenty numbers.
Today, Keno is regularly enjoyed with eighty numbers in most of the US land based casinos along with online casinos. Keno is mainly played today because of the relaxed nature of betting the game and the basic fact that there are no expertise needed to play Keno. Regardless of the reality that the odds of winning are horrible, there is constantly the chance that you could win quite large with very little gambling investment.
Keno is enjoyed with 80 numbers and 20 numbers are picked each game. Enthusiasts of Keno can choose from 2 to ten numbers and gamble on them, whatever amount they want to. The pay out of Keno is dependent on the wagers made and the matching of numbers.
Keno has grown in popularity in the US since the end of the 1800’s when the Chinese characters were replaced with , US numbers. Lotteries were not covered under the legalization of wagering in Nevada State in 1931. The casinos adjusted the name of the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the idea that the numbers are horses and you want your horses to place. When a law passed that levied a tax on off track wagering, the casinos quickly altered the name to ‘Keno’.