Keno was introduced in 200 before Christ by the Chinese army leader, Cheung Leung who used this game as a way to finance his declining army. The city of Cheung was at war, and after a bit of time seemed to be facing national shortage of food with the excessive drop in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to develop a fast response for the financial disaster and to produce money for his army. He, as it follows designed the game we now know as keno and it was a great success.

Keno was known as the White Pigeon Game, since the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from bigger cities to the lesser villages. The lottery ‘Keno’ was imported to the United States in the 1800s by Chinese expatriates who migrated to the US for work. In those times, Keno used one hundred and twenty numbers.

Today, Keno is typically played with eighty numbers in almost all of the US brick and mortar casinos as well as web casinos. Keno is largely loved today because of the laid back nature of gambling the game and the basic reality that there are no expertise required to play Keno. Regardless of the fact that the odds of winning are terrible, there is constantly the chance that you will win quite big with a tiny gaming investment.

Keno is enjoyed with eighty numbers with twenty numbers selected each round. Players of Keno can pick from 2 to ten numbers and wager on them, whatever amount they are able to. The pay out of Keno is according to the wagers made and the roll out of matching numbers.

Keno grew in popularity in the United States near the close of the 1800’s when the Chinese letters were changed with , US numbers. Lotteries weren’t covered under the laws of wagering in the state of Nevada in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the concept that the numbers are horses and you are looking for your horses to come in. When the Nevada government passed a law that taxed off track wagering, the casinos quickly altered the name to ‘Keno’.