The background of Keno
by Abel on Monday, July 29th, 2019
Keno was introduced in 200 before Christ by the Chinese military leader, Cheung Leung who used keno as a financial resource for his failing army. The city of Cheung was at war, and after some time appeared to be looking at a national famine with the dramatic drop in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to come up with a rapid response for the economic disaster and to produce revenue for his army. He therefore developed the game we now know as keno and it was a great success.
Keno used to be 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 smaller villages. The lotto ‘Keno’ was imported to the USA in the 19th century by Chinese immigrants who came to the States to jobs. In those times, Keno used one hundred and twenty numbers.
Today, Keno is generally wagered on with 80 numbers in almost all of the US based casinos along with web casinos. Keno is commonly liked today as a result of the relaxed nature of wagering the game and the basic reality that there are little expertise required to play Keno. Despite the reality that the chances of getting a win are terrible, there is always the chance that you will hit quite big with little gambling investment.
Keno is played with eighty numbers with twenty numbers picked each round. Players of Keno can select from 2 to 10 numbers and wager on them, whatever amount they want to. The payout of Keno is dependent on the bets made and the matching of numbers.
Keno has grown in acceptance in the United States since the close of the 1800’s when the Chinese letters were changed with more familiar, US numbers. Lottos weren’t covered under the laws of wagering in the state of Nevada in 1931. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the concept that the numbers are horses and you are looking for your horses to come in. When a law passed that levied a tax on off track wagering, Nevada casinos swiftly adjusted the name to ‘Keno’.
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