Keno’s History
Saturday, 25. February 2017
Keno was created in two hundred before Christ by the Chinese military commander, Cheung Leung who used this game as a monetary resource for his declining forces. The city of Cheung was waging a battle, and after a bit of time seemed to be facing country wide famine with the drastic drop in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to come up with a rapid fix for the financial adversity and to produce money for his military. He thusly developed the game we now know as keno and it was a wonderful success.
Keno used to be well-known as the White Pigeon Game, since the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from larger cities to the tinier villages. The lottery ‘Keno’ was imported to America in the 19th century by Chinese immigrants who headed to the US to work. In those times, Keno used one hundred and twenty numbers.
Today, Keno is most often gambled on with just 80 numbers in just about all of American brick and mortar casinos as well as internet casinos. Keno is commonly played today because of the laid back nature of wagering the game and the basic fact that there are no skills required to enjoy Keno. Despite the fact that the odds of winning are horrible, there is always the chance that you might win quite big with very little gambling investment.
Keno is enjoyed with eighty numbers with 20 numbers picked each round. Enthusiasts of Keno can pick from two to ten numbers and wager on them, as much or as little as they want to. The pay out of Keno is according to the wagers made and the roll out of matching numbers.
Keno has grown in popularity in the US since the close of the 19th century when the Chinese letters were changed with more familiar, American numbers. Lottos were not covered under the laws of gaming in Nevada State in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos altered 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 place. When a law passed that levied a tax on off track betting, the casinos quickly changed the name to ‘Keno’.
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