The History of Keno
Sunday, 2. April 2017
Keno was introduced in two hundred BC by the Chinese military leader, Cheung Leung who used keno as a way to finance his declining army. The city of Cheung was waging a war, and after some time appeared to be looking at a country wide shortage of food with the excessive decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to develop a quick response for the financial adversity and to acquire money for his forces. He, as it follows invented the game we know today as keno and it was a wonderful success.
Keno was known as the White Pigeon Game, due to the fact that the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from larger cities to the smaller towns. The lotto ‘Keno’ was imported to America in the 1800s by Chinese immigrants who came to the States to work. In those times, Keno used 120 numbers.
Today, Keno is regularly played with 80 numbers in most of American based casinos along with internet casinos. Keno is commonly enjoyed today as a consequence of the relaxed nature of betting the game and the simple reality that there are little expertise required to enjoy Keno. Despite the reality that the odds of coming away with a win are horrible, there is always the chance that you will win quite large with very little gambling investment.
Keno is played with 80 numbers and twenty numbers are picked each game. Enthusiasts of Keno can pick from two to ten numbers and wager on them, whatever amount they are able to. The pay out of Keno is according to the bets made and the roll out of matching numbers.
Keno has grown in acceptance in the United States since the end of the 19th century when the Chinese letters were changed with more familiar, US numbers. Lottos weren’t covered under the legalization of gambling in the state of Nevada in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lottery’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the idea that the numbers are horses and you want your horses to come in. When a law passed that levied a tax on off track wagering, Nevada casinos quickly adjusted the name to ‘Keno’.
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