Keno’s History
Wednesday, 22. January 2020
Keno was first played in two hundred BC by the Chinese military leader, Cheung Leung who utilized this game as a financial resource for his declining army. The metropolis of Cheung was waging a battle, and after a bit of time seemed to be facing country wide shortage of food with the drastic decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to come up with a quick response for the economic adversity and to produce money for his forces. He therefore invented the game we know today as keno and it was a great success.
Keno was known as the White Pigeon Game, seeing as the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from bigger locations to the smaller villages. The lottery ‘Keno’ was imported to America in the 1800s by Chinese migrants who came to the United States to work. In those times, Keno used 120 numbers.
Today, Keno is regularly played with 80 numbers in almost all of American brick and mortar casinos along with net casinos. Keno is commonly liked today because of the relaxed nature of betting the game and the basic fact that there are no expertise required to enjoy Keno. Despite the reality that the odds of coming away with a win are terrible, there is always the possibility that you could win quite big with a tiny gaming investment.
Keno is enjoyed with 80 numbers with 20 numbers picked each round. Gamblers of Keno can pick from 2 to ten numbers and wager on them, as much or as little as they want to. The payout of Keno is according to the wagers made and the roll out of matching numbers.
Keno grew in popularity in the US near the close of the 19th century when the Chinese characters were replaced with more familiar, US numbers. Lottos were not covered under the legalization of gambling in Nevada State in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the idea that the numbers are horses and you want your horses to place. When a law passed that levied a tax on off track gambling, the casinos swiftly adjusted the name to ‘Keno’.
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