Keno’s History
by Abel on Wednesday, December 30th, 2015
Keno was created in 200 before Christ by the Chinese military commander, Cheung Leung who utilized keno as a way to finance his failing forces. The city of Cheung was waging a battle, and after some time appeared to be facing country wide shortage of food with the excessive decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to come up with a quick response for the economic adversity and to produce money for his forces. He, as it follows designed the game we now know as keno and it was a great success.
Keno used to be known as the White Pigeon Game, since the winning numbers were broadcast by pigeons from bigger cities to the smaller towns. The lottery ‘Keno’ was brought to America in the 19th century by Chinese migrants who migrated to the US to jobs. In those times, Keno used 120 numbers.
Today, Keno is most often enjoyed with just 80 numbers in a majority of American brick and mortar casinos as well as internet casinos. Keno is commonly liked today as a consequence of the laid back nature of playing the game and the basic fact that there are little skills needed to play Keno. Despite the fact that the odds of coming away with a win are terrible, there is always the hope that you might hit quite big with very little gambling investment.
Keno is played with eighty numbers with twenty numbers selected each game. Players of Keno can select from 2 to ten numbers and gamble on them, as much or as little as they want to. The pay out of Keno is dependent on the wagers made and the matching of numbers.
Keno grew in popularity in the US near the end of the 1800’s when the Chinese letters were changed with , US numbers. Lottos weren’t covered under the legalization of gaming in the state of Nevada in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the concept that the numbers are horses and you are wanting your horses to place. When the Nevada government passed a law that taxed off track betting, casinos quickly adjusted the name to ‘Keno’.
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