Keno’s History
Keno was first played in two hundred before Christ by the Chinese army leader, Cheung Leung who utilized keno as a financial resource for his failing forces. The metropolis of Cheung was waging a battle, and after a bit of time seemed to be looking at a country wide famine with the drastic decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung had to come up with a fast response for the financial adversity and to create revenue for his military. He therefore created the game we know today as keno and it was a great success.
Keno used to be well-known as the White Pigeon Game, since the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from bigger cities to the smaller villages. The lottery ‘Keno’ was imported to America in the 1800s by Chinese expatriates who came to the States to work. In those times, Keno used 120 numbers.
Today, Keno is normally played with 80 numbers in just about all of the US based casinos as well as internet casinos. Keno is commonly enjoyed today as a consequence of the relaxed nature of wagering the game and the basic fact that there are little expertise needed to play Keno. Despite the fact that the chances of succeeding are appalling, there is constantly the chance that you could hit quite large with very little gaming investment.
Keno is enjoyed with 80 numbers and twenty numbers are picked each game. Enthusiasts of Keno can select from two to ten numbers and wager on them, as much or as little as they are able to. The pay out of Keno is according to the wagers made and the matching of numbers.
Keno has grown in acceptance in the US since the close of the 1800’s when the Chinese characters were changed with more familiar, American numbers. Lotteries were not covered under the legalization of gambling in the state of Nevada in 1931. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the idea that the numbers are horses and you are wanting your horses to come in. When the Nevada government passed a law that taxed off track gambling, Nevada casinos quickly altered the name to ‘Keno’.
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