Keno Strategy

The History of Keno

by Anya on Aug.27, 2015, under Keno

Keno was first played in two hundred BC by the Chinese military commander, Cheung Leung who used keno as a way to finance his failing forces. The metropolis of Cheung was at war, and after some time appeared to be facing country wide famine with the excessive decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to create a rapid fix for the economic calamity and to acquire income for his forces. He therefore designed the game we now know as keno and it was a wonderful success.

Keno was referred to as the White Pigeon Game, due to the fact that the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from bigger locations to the lesser villages. The lotto ‘Keno’ was brought to the United States in the 1800s by Chinese newcomers who headed to the United States to work. In those times, Keno used one hundred and twenty numbers.

Today, Keno is typically enjoyed with eighty numbers in most of the US based casinos as well as net casinos. Keno is largely played today as a consequence of the laid back nature of wagering the game and the basic fact that there are little expertise required to enjoy Keno. Despite the reality that the chances of coming away with a win are horrible, there is constantly the hope that you might win quite large with a tiny gaming investment.

Keno is enjoyed with 80 numbers and twenty numbers are picked each round. Enthusiasts of Keno can choose from two to 10 numbers and gamble on them, whatever amount they want to. The pay out of Keno is according to the bets made and the roll out of matching numbers.

Keno has grown in universal appeal in the United States since the end of the 1800’s when the Chinese letters were replaced with more familiar, American numbers. Lotteries were not covered under the laws of gaming in the state of Nevada in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos changed the name of the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the concept that the numbers are horses and you want your horses to come in. When a law passed that taxed off track gambling, Nevada casinos quickly changed the name to ‘Keno’.


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