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» Examples Of Bet Variants In The Game Of Keno
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If you bet on the numbers marked as a single wager you make a a straight ticket bet. It is the simplest way to play, but many players like to bet more combinations.
If a chosen number is used in all combinations marked it is called the king and a king ticket bet is made this way.
If you want to make a combination ticket bet you should mark several number groupings and plays combinations of them.
Depending on how many numbers the player choses and how many numbers are "hit", multiplied by the proportion of the player's original wager to the “base rate” of the paytable. Usually the more numbers a player chooses and the more numbers hit, the greater the payout is.
The probability of a player hitting all 20 numbers on a 20 spot ticket is approximately 1 in 3.5 quintillion.
After the 20 numbers are drawn, winning tickets are paid according to a table that varies from house to house. If you have, for example, a four-spot ticket, you are paid 1:1 if 2 numbers hit, 1:5 if 3 numbers hit and 1:120! if all the 4 numbers hit. But in another casino, the three-number hit might pay and all four 5, and in another the payoffs might be and 0. Because of the variation, no payback percentage is common enough to be called average.
The game of keno, which has the features of Bingo and any lottery, is nowadays popular all over the world. Keno was introduced in China by its head of state more than 2000 years ago. Still the origins of the game are really a bit of a mystery. There can be found several different opinions.
One theory is that Cheung Leung of the Han Dynasty introduced the game when his city was at war for several years and was beginning to run out of money and supplies. The citizens refused to contribute additional funds to the fruitless cause of the war. So the emperor tried to work out a strategy of generating the necessary finances. Finally, Cheung had the brilliant idea of creating a game that would appeal to the huge numbers of people under his command, while simultaneously generating a bit of cash to cover his expenses. Thus Cheung's army was saved. The Great Wall was also built with the help of the money that gave keno! Later keno was known as the White Pigeon game as people of surrounding villages were informed of the winning numbers by carrier pigeons.
At first Chinese classic characters instead of numbers were printed on the keno boards. The total of 120 characters was used in the game but the number reduced to 80 in the long run.
Thousads of Chinese immigrants, who came to America to work in the mines in the mid 1800's, brought keno there. Though the game was considered illegal, the new Chinese immigrants still played it. It became popular among the Americans only when the Chinese characters were changed into numbers.
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| Keno is easy to learn and fun to play. Players mark 1 to 15 spots on a ticket containing the numbers 1 through 80. Keno has a large board marked with numbers from 1 to 80. |
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