Keno

Quick Tips

• If you like playing bingo or lottery – keno is the game for you.
• Online keno can be a fun game because of the game graphics and animations.
• Check out the keno paytables before you start playing, different casinos may offer a number of different paytables.
• Find games with progressive jackpots for your chance at added money.

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Keno is a casino game where players have to choose 1 to 10 numbers from the given table of numbers ranging from 1 to 80 - much like bingo. Different online casinos use various graphics and animations for drawing the random numbers.

Traditionally keno is played with balls imprinted with numbers all put in a circular transparent container where they spin around until 20 of them are drawn. However, the draw procedure and unique features often vary at different online casinos.

After the players pick their numbers, the casino software “calls” 20 random numbers which determine the winners. Keno payouts vary throughout different casinos, so players should get familiar with the particular casino's keno paytables before they start playing. The payouts in keno depend on how many numbers marked on the player's card match the one's that have been drawn by the casino. The more numbers match, the bigger is the payout.

At the beginning of the keno game each player receives a card which displays all 80 numbers from 1 to 80. Players bet by marking the numbers they believe will come up during the draw with an X mark.

Although the common keno practice is that the players are allowed to mark 1 to 10 numbers on their cards, some online casinos allow up to 15 or even 20 numbers to be marked. Different casinos have different betting and payout structures, so take the time to determine the rules and odds at each online casino before you start wagering.

In order to make playing keno more exciting most of the online casinos offer fun game graphics and animations, for example, Party Casino has Safecracker Keno where players try to crack the kenosafe for a cash bonus, Everest Casino offers Castle Keno – a game where numbers are “drawn” by casino software by throwing rocks from the catapult into the numbered castle wall.

So if you're a lottery fan who likes to mark their lucky numbers on the board and hope for them to come up and if you feel lucky then keno is the game for you.

Keno Strategy

Since the sequence of numbers that are drawn in keno is totally random, most strategies have equal chances of winning. However, you should choose your own playing style (varied bets, amount of keno numbers chosen etc). There are 3,535,316,142,212,174,320 possible combinations when drawing twenty out of eighty numbered keno balls. Although the number sequence does not matter, the chances of hitting the right one are quite low. However, this does not prevent keno players from creating their own game styles.

Some players tend to bet on numbers that were not drawn yet hoping they would come up eventually, others wager on those that had recently came up, although this does not seem more likely, interesting trends and patterns are a common when it comes to randomly drawn numbers.

A number of players simply have their favorite or just lucky numbers and their combinations which they bet on, whereas others like to wager on successive numbers or numbers in pairs such as 7,8 or 24,25 as numbers in keno often seem to come in successive order.

However, none of these techniques carry mathematical advantages over each other, they are more playing styles, rather than strategies. Because in keno the number sequence is random and players have no influence on the outcome of the game, the best way to win is to hope you're lucky and to go for the big win!

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