Keno was introduced in 200 BC by the Chinese army commander, 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 time seemed to be looking at a country wide famine with the dramatic drop in supplies. Cheung Leung had to come up with a quick fix for the economic disaster and to create revenue for his military. He thusly created the game we now know as keno and it was a great success.

Keno used to be referred to as the White Pigeon Game, because the winning numbers were broadcast by pigeons from larger municipalities to the tinier villages. The lottery ‘Keno’ was imported to America in the 19th century by Chinese expatriates who migrated to the US for jobs. In those times, Keno used 120 numbers.

Today, Keno is most often gambled on with just 80 numbers in almost all of American land based casinos as well as net casinos. Keno is commonly played today because of the relaxed nature of betting the game and the simple fact that there are no expertise required to play Keno. Despite the reality that the odds of winning are appalling, there is constantly the chance that you could win quite large with very little gaming investment.

Keno is played with eighty numbers and 20 numbers are drawn each game. Players of Keno can select from 2 to ten numbers and gamble 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 popularity in the US since the end of the 19th century when the Chinese characters were replaced with more familiar, American numbers. Lotteries were not covered under the legalization of gaming 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 a law passed that taxed off track betting, Nevada casinos swiftly changed the name to ‘Keno’.