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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 declining army. The metropolis of Cheung was at war, and after a bit of war time seemed to be looking at a national shortage of food with the excessive decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to develop a quick response for the economic adversity and to acquire income for his forces. He therefore invented the game we now know as keno and it was a wonderful success.

Keno was known as the White Pigeon Game, seeing as the winning numbers were broadcast by pigeons from larger locations to the smaller villages. The lottery ‘Keno’ was brought to the United States in the 1800s by Chinese expatriates who came to the States for work. In those times, Keno was played with 120 numbers.

Today, Keno is generally enjoyed with just 80 numbers in most of the US brick and mortar casinos as well as net casinos. Keno is largely liked today because of the relaxed nature of playing the game and the basic reality that there are little skills required to enjoy Keno. Regardless of the fact that the odds of coming away with a win are horrible, there is constantly the possibility that you could win quite big with little gaming investment.

Keno is played with 80 numbers and twenty numbers are selected each game. Enthusiasts of Keno can select 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 bets made and the matching of numbers.

Keno has grown in popularity in the US since the end of the 19th century when the Chinese letters were replaced with more familiar, US numbers. Lottos were not covered under the laws of gaming in the state of Nevada in 1931. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing 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 betting, Nevada casinos swiftly changed the name to ‘Keno’.