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Keno was created in two hundred before Christ by the Chinese military commander, Cheung Leung who used this game as a finance resource for his failing forces. The metropolis of Cheung was at war, and after some time appeared to be facing country wide shortage of food with the excessive drop in supplies. Cheung Leung had to come up with a quick response for the economic adversity and to acquire money for his forces. He therefore designed the game we know today as keno and it was a wonderful success.

Keno used to be well-known as the White Pigeon Game, seeing as the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from larger municipalities to the tinier towns. The lotto ‘Keno’ was brought to America in the 1800s by Chinese immigrants who migrated to the States for work. In those times, Keno was played with 120 numbers.

Today, Keno is most often bet on with eighty numbers in a majority of the US land based casinos as well as net casinos. Keno is largely played today as a result of the relaxed nature of betting the game and the simple reality that there are no expertise required to enjoy Keno. Despite the reality that the odds of getting a win are terrible, there is constantly the hope that you could win quite large with a tiny gaming investment.

Keno is played with 80 numbers and twenty numbers are drawn each game. Gamblers of Keno can pick from two to 10 numbers and bet on them, whatever amount they want to. The pay out of Keno is according to the wagers made and the matching of numbers.

Keno has grown in universal appeal in the United States since the end of the 19th century when the Chinese characters were changed with more familiar, American numbers. Lotteries weren’t covered under the laws of gambling in the state of Nevada in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos adjusted the name of the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the notion that the numbers are horses and you are wanting your horses to come in. When a law passed that levied a tax on off track betting, the casinos quickly altered the name to ‘Keno’.