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Keno was first played in two hundred BC by the Chinese army leader, Cheung Leung who utilized this game as a way to finance his declining forces. 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 develop a rapid response for the economic adversity and to produce revenue for his forces. He therefore invented the game we now know as keno and it was a wonderful success.

Keno used to be known as the White Pigeon Game, due to the fact that the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from bigger locations to the smaller villages. The lottery ‘Keno’ was imported to America in the 19th century by Chinese newcomers who came to the States to jobs. In those times, Keno was played with 120 numbers.

Today, Keno is regularly gambled on with 80 numbers in just about all of the US brick and mortar casinos along with online casinos. Keno is commonly liked today as a consequence of the relaxed nature of playing the game and the basic fact that there are little expertise required to play Keno. Regardless of the fact that the odds of succeeding are terrible, there is constantly the chance that you might win quite big with very little gambling investment.

Keno is played with eighty numbers and 20 numbers are picked each round. Gamblers of Keno can select from two to 10 numbers and wager on them, as much or as little as they want to. The pay out of Keno is dependent on the bets made and the roll out of matching numbers.

Keno grew in universal appeal in the United States near the close of the 1800’s when the Chinese letters were changed with , American numbers. Lotteries 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 notion that the numbers are horses and you are looking for your horses to place. When the Nevada government passed a law that taxed off track wagering, the casinos swiftly altered the name to ‘Keno’.