Keno’s History
Wednesday, 20. April 2016
Keno was created in 200 BC by the Chinese army commander, Cheung Leung who used this game as a way to finance his failing army. The city of Cheung was waging a battle, and after a bit of time appeared to be looking at a country wide famine with the dramatic drop in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to develop a rapid response for the financial disaster and to acquire revenue for his forces. He thusly invented the game we know today as keno and it was a great success.
Keno once was known as the White Pigeon Game, because the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from bigger municipalities to the smaller towns. The lotto ‘Keno’ was imported to America in the 19th century by Chinese migrants who migrated to the States to work. In those times, Keno was played with 120 numbers.
Today, Keno is normally wagered on with 80 numbers in almost all of American based casinos along with online casinos. Keno is largely played today as a result of the laid back nature of playing the game and the simple fact that there are little expertise required to play Keno. Regardless of the reality that the odds of getting a win are terrible, there is constantly the hope that you could win quite large with little gaming investment.
Keno is enjoyed with 80 numbers with twenty numbers picked each round. Gamblers of Keno can select from two to ten numbers and gamble on them, as much or as little as they want to. The payout of Keno is dependent on the bets made and the matching of numbers.
Keno grew in universal appeal in the US near the close of the 1800’s when the Chinese letters were changed with , US numbers. Lottos weren’t covered under the legalization of gambling in Nevada State in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the idea that the numbers are horses and you are looking for your horses to place. When the Nevada government passed a law that taxed off track betting, casinos quickly changed the name to ‘Keno’.
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