Keno
Rules & Strategies
by Frank Scoblete
This
Keno lesson discusses rules
and strategies and will be of interest to casino players who enjoy
playing
lotteries or ‘numbers’ games.
Of course, like the
lottery, Keno comes in with very high edges for the house – 25 percent,
more or
less, depending on the casino where the game is being played and the
type of
wagers being pursued.
The players’ tickets are
numbered one through 80. You
can choose
to play between one and 20 numbers on a given ticket.
The numbers to be played are “X’ed” out in
crayon.
To win a multi-number
bet, you often don’t have to select all the numbers, just some of them.
Following
are some of
the most popular betting options at Keno:
Types of
Bets
Straight
Ticket: A player can
mark one, two, or more numbers on a
ticket.
Split
Ticket: A player
can bet on two or more groups of numbers
on a single ticket by
circling the groups to be played.
Way
Ticket: Combining
several groups of numbers on the same ticket.
Combination
Ticket: The player
selects two or more groups of numbers
and indicates how the groups are to be combined to form many tickets
within one
ticket.
King
Ticket: One number
is selected to be used with all the
other groups that have
been indicated.
Multi
Race Ticket: This is
a ticket that indicates that it will be
played for two or more sessions in a row.
I
have
seen several
mailings and offers from individuals who are selling systems
to beat
Keno.
They
claim that they
have found patterns to the numbers that can be exploited by their
“super-seven buster” or their “pyramid” method or their
“ping-pong
power play.”
The costs of these
systems are – to say the least – outrageous while the claims of the
systems are
laughable and bogus.
There is no magical system for beating
the game and these
system sellers are scamming us.
The
reason for this
conclusion is that the numbers are selected randomly, either
by air-driven
ping-pong balls, similar to most of the state lotteries, or by computer.
The fact that some
numbers may have hit several times and other numbers may not have shown
their
faces for quite awhile is no indication that a number will continue to
hit or
is due to hit.
Picking numbers is sheer guesswork.
So
why
play Keno? First,
it offers a relaxing atmosphere.
The lounges are usually
pleasantly appointed places, with comfortable chairs. You can drink a
cup of
coffee, pick your numbers in a leisurely fashion, and not worry about
other players
telling you what to do or not do.
Playing in front of a
computer screen online in the comfort of your home also qualifies.
Additionally,
played
properly for small stakes, this game, even with its high house edges,
will not drain
your gambling bankroll any time soon as it is the snail of casino games.
Here
are
a couple of
strategies for playing this ‘numbers’ game:
Don’t
select more than eight numbers on a
straight ticket.
The odds of hitting all eight are 230,000
to 1 – but the odds
of hitting all nine out of nine numbers are 1.3 million to 1.
Bet
way tickets
rather than straight tickets.
The odds are the same, but
you’ll hit more
payoffs.
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