The History of Keno
Friday, 22. March 2019
Keno was introduced in two hundred before Christ by the Chinese army commander, Cheung Leung who used keno as a way to finance his declining army. The city of Cheung was at war, and after awhile of war time appeared to be looking at a country wide famine with the excessive drop in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to create a rapid response for the financial adversity and to acquire money for his military. He thusly invented the game we now know as keno and it was a fantastic success.
Keno was known as the White Pigeon Game, due to the fact that the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from bigger municipalities to the tinier towns. The lottery ‘Keno’ was imported to America in the 19th century by Chinese expatriates who migrated to the US to jobs. In those times, Keno was played with one hundred and twenty numbers.
Today, Keno is regularly bet on with 80 numbers in a majority of American based casinos as well as web casinos. Keno is commonly liked today because of the laid back nature of playing the game and the basic fact that there are little expertise needed to enjoy Keno. Regardless of the fact that the chances of coming away with a win are appalling, there is constantly the hope that you will hit quite big with very little gambling investment.
Keno is enjoyed with eighty numbers and 20 numbers are drawn each round. Enthusiasts of Keno can choose from 2 to ten numbers and bet on them, as much or as little as they want to. The payout of Keno is according to the bets made and the matching of numbers.
Keno has grown in universal appeal in the United States since the close of the 1800’s when the Chinese letters were replaced with more familiar, US numbers. Lottos weren’t covered under the laws of gambling in the state of Nevada in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lotto’ 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 gambling, the casinos quickly changed the name to ‘Keno’.
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