KENO

 

Online Keno is a lottery style game that is often featured at many modern gambling establishments including online casinos, offline casinos and bars or restaurants. While Keno as it appears online is relatively new compared to the offline varieties (appearing along with some of the first online casino games around 1993), the game of Keno has actually been played for more than 3000 years since its appearance in China.

The etymology of Keno is from French or Latin. In French (quine), it means five winning numbers. In Latin, it is often translated as meaning five each. Some legends state that the game of Keno was originally created during an ancient war and helped fund the building of the famous Great Wall of China. However, this is very unlikely (if not impossible) as lotteries were forbidden as a way to raise money to fund public projects before the later part of the 19th century and the Great Wall was built over a series of dynasties from the 5th to the 16th century B.C.

 

Best Casinos to Play Keno Online

 

 

Setting Up your Online Keno Board

 

Players begin by deciding which numbers they will play in online Keno. Most online Keno boards have players click on the numbers they wish to choose, changing the color of the number on the board. If a player decides to change which numbers they have selected before the drawing starts, they simply click on the number they wish to de-select to revert it back to its original color and choose another number. Some casinos have the option to have the computer automatically select a player's numbers for them. Remember to keep an eye on the local online Keno payout table to ensure the best possible amount to win. Most online Keno locations have an automatically updating payout table somewhere near the Keno board.

 

Placing Your Online Keno Bet  

 

Once a player is finished selecting their numbers for online Keno, the player must decide how much they wish to bet on the drawing. The amount available to gamble depends on where the player is playing. When the amount has been chosen, the online Keno payout table will update with the correct amount of potential winnings. Most online Keno locations offer multiple tiers of wagering, ranging from one dollar to many times that. However, the average online Keno site has increments of one dollar, three dollars and five dollars.

 

Choosing the Number of Online Keno Games to Play

 

Most places that host online Keno allow players to choose how many consecutive Keno games a player would like to play their chosen numbers. In both online Keno and regular Keno, each game is called a Keno race. Players can generally choose between playing one race, five races or ten races in online Keno. Players can view their results after each race in online Keno. If a player wishes to repeat their wager, most online Keno sites have a Repeat Bet button for their convenience.

 

Determining What a Player Won in Online Keno

  

When playing online Keno, in every round twenty numbers are drawn. If the number drawn matches one of the numbers a player has chosen, that is called a hit. Depending on the amount of numbers chosen by the player, the payout for how many hits that were made varies. The payout table for online Keno denotes the amount of hits needed to win varying amounts of money.
The number of choices the player makes directly impacts how many hits they need to win a payout.

If they choose ten numbers and all ten are matched, the payout will be larger than if five numbers were matched. If, on the same online Keno game, only one number of ten matches, then the player will generally not win anything. If the player only chooses to pick one number in online Keno, and that number is one of the twenty drawn, the player will win even though they only matched one number. The probabilities of winning and amount won vary depending on how many numbers an online Keno player decides to choose.

 

Online Keno Probabilities

 

In a standard online Keno board, players are given eighty numbers to choose from. There are 80 / (20 * 60) (or 3,535,316,142,212,174,320) different outcomes for the chosen twenty numbers to emerge. Online Keno players can choose anywhere from one number to fifteen, depending on where the player chooses to play. The highest odds of winning in online Keno are often achieved by choosing less numbers than the maximum. Remember, the payoff table for online Keno will give a player the appropriate earnings for winning as they continue to choose numbers.

The more numbers a player chooses in online Keno, the more numbers they must match to receive a payout. While the amount a player can win is enormous when choosing the maximum numbers, the odds of winning such a payout are rather small. Choosing to play less numbers in online Keno may not have the opportunity for huge immediate dividends, but it does have better potential for making more money on a long term basis.

 

Online Keno Strategy

 

There are a few decent strategies to improve your odds of winning, but there are hardly any guarantees that any of them will be effective. One strategy is to pick a group of numbers that have not been drawn in a while. It may be time for some of these numbers win again. Maybe history repeats itself. You could try the opposite approach, which is selecting numbers that come up quite frequently. If your strategy is working, continue to use it.

Another strategy is to choose consecutive numbers and see if that works. Unfortunately, there are no statistics that prove this is effective, but a few gamblers claim they have won using this strategy. You can also pick one number and stick with it. You will certainly have a streak no matter what. Perhaps you can be lucky with strategy. There is also a slight chance that you will go to a casino where no one has a clue what they are doing. There is a case where one man won a lot of games because the number patterns were the same every single day. He simply observed the patterns and chose the same numbers accordingly.

How is this possible? Some casinos use a computer to generate the numbers instead of hand drawing the numbers from a machine. They use a computer generated algorithm. The problem occurred when this casino in particular never changed the pattern. Of course one thing that all players should avoid is the gambler's fallacy. The myth is that a particular event that has happened recently is overdue and is likely to happen again, possibly soon.

 

Online Keno Betting Systems

 

A strategy that is sure not to work is betting systems. In fact, these are discouraged in all casino games (except by the casinos themselves). Real life experiments point to absolutely no success at all. You may encounter crooked people that make you want to buy books detailing betting systems. However, these strategies only work in computer simulations. Why use something that does not work? You are guaranteed to lose money that way.

One such system is The Martingale. A gambler will simply double his or her bet hoping to increase the chances of winning. First you bet one dollar, then two, then four, then eight. In the end, you can lose $15. Even if you are lucky enough to win a fifth round, you will probably only get one dollar in total.