The background of Keno
Thursday, 24. October 2019
Keno was introduced in two hundred before Christ by the Chinese military leader, Cheung Leung who utilized keno as a way to finance his failing forces. The metropolis of Cheung was waging a war, and after a bit of war time seemed to be facing national shortage of food with the drastic drop in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to create a rapid fix for the financial disaster and to acquire income for his forces. He thusly created the game we know today as keno and it was a wonderful success.
Keno once was well-known as the White Pigeon Game, seeing as the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from bigger cities to the tinier towns. The lottery ‘Keno’ was imported to the United States in the 19th century by Chinese immigrants who headed to the US to jobs. In those times, Keno used one hundred and twenty numbers.
Today, Keno is typically wagered on with eighty numbers in most of American land based casinos as well as online casinos. Keno is mainly played today as a result of the laid back nature of betting the game and the basic fact that there are no skills needed to enjoy Keno. Regardless of the reality that the odds of winning are horrible, there is always the possibility that you could win quite big with a tiny gambling investment.
Keno is played with 80 numbers and 20 numbers are selected each round. Gamblers of Keno can select from 2 to 10 numbers and gamble on them, as much or as little as they want to. The pay out of Keno is according to the bets made and the roll out of matching numbers.
Keno has grown in popularity in the United States since the end of the 1800’s when the Chinese characters were changed with more familiar, US numbers. Lotteries weren’t covered under the laws of gambling in Nevada State in 1931. The casinos adjusted the name of the ‘Chinese lottery’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the concept 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, casinos swiftly changed the name to ‘Keno’.
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