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Keno was first played in two hundred BC by the Chinese army commander, Cheung Leung who used this game as a way to finance his failing army. The metropolis of Cheung was at war, and after a bit of time seemed to be facing national shortage of food with the dramatic drop in supplies. Cheung Leung had to create a fast response for the economic adversity and to acquire revenue for his army. He therefore designed the game we know today as keno and it was a great success.

Keno was known as the White Pigeon Game, since the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from bigger cities to the smaller villages. The lotto ‘Keno’ was imported to the United States in the 1800s by Chinese migrants who migrated to the US to work. In those times, Keno was played with one hundred and twenty numbers.

Today, Keno is regularly wagered on with eighty numbers in most of the US land based casinos along with online casinos. Keno is largely loved today because of the laid back nature of gambling the game and the basic fact that there are little skills needed to play Keno. Regardless of the fact that the odds of winning are appalling, there is always the hope that you might hit quite large with little gambling investment.

Keno is enjoyed with 80 numbers with twenty numbers picked each round. Players of Keno can select from two to ten numbers and wager on them, whatever amount they want to. The payout of Keno is according to the bets made and the matching of numbers.

Keno has grown in acceptance in the US since the close of the 19th century when the Chinese letters were changed with , US numbers. Lottos were not covered under the legalization of gaming in Nevada State in 1931. The casinos altered the name of the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the notion that the numbers are horses and you want your horses to place. When a law passed that levied a tax on off track gambling, the casinos quickly altered the name to ‘Keno’.