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Keno was introduced in 200 before Christ by the Chinese military leader, Cheung Leung who utilized keno as a way to finance his failing army. The city of Cheung was waging a war, and after a bit of time appeared to be looking at a country wide famine with the drastic drop in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to develop a quick response for the financial disaster and to produce income for his forces. He thusly created the game we now know as keno and it was a great success.

Keno once was referred to as the White Pigeon Game, because the winning numbers were delivered by pigeons from bigger locations to the smaller towns. The lottery ‘Keno’ was brought to America in the 1800s by Chinese immigrants who migrated to the United States to work. In those times, Keno was played with one hundred and twenty numbers.

Today, Keno is most often gambled on with just 80 numbers in a majority of the US land based casinos along with net casinos. Keno is largely liked today as a result of the laid back nature of playing the game and the basic fact that there are little expertise needed to play Keno. Regardless of the reality that the chances of succeeding are appalling, there is always the chance that you will win quite large with very little gambling investment.

Keno is played with 80 numbers and twenty numbers are drawn each game. Players of Keno can choose from two to 10 numbers and wager on them, whatever amount they are able to. The payout of Keno is according to the wagers made and the matching of numbers.

Keno has grown in popularity in the United States since the end of the 19th century when the Chinese letters were changed with , American numbers. Lottos weren’t covered under the laws of wagering in Nevada State in 1931. The casinos changed the name of the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the idea that the numbers are horses and you want your horses to place. When the Nevada government passed a law that levied a tax on off track betting, the casinos swiftly changed the name to ‘Keno’.