Online Keno Rule and Best Keno Casinos

Keno: the modern avatar of an ancient Chinese game

Keno is a popular gambling game at casinos and at bingo halls. Online keno is played on most Internet gambling sites.

Keno rules are very simple. A keno ticket has the numbers 1 to 80 marked on it. A player marks up to 20 numbers on the ticket. Then 20 numbers are drawn at random. The payout is decided on the basis of how many of the numbers drawn match the numbers marked by the player on his ticket. The probability of getting all twenty numbers right is 1 in a three and a half million trillion. The keno payouts are such that they provide an advantage to the casino more than any other gambling game. Despite this keno continues to be popular.

Several variations have been introduced in the standard keno format. A "multi-race" ticket allows the player to participate in a number of predetermined games with the same 20 numbers marked for each game and redeem his winnings at the end of all the games. The "stray and play" ticket is valid for a long period running to as much as a year.

Keno originated in ancient China about 200 years before the birth of Christ. The Chinese immigrants who came to America in the 19 th century brought this game with them.

Thanks the sophisticated graphical interfaces, online Keno has become a popular game in the last couple of years.

Keno is lottery-type game and one of the simpliest games in the casino and therefore it's suitable for the novice players.

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