Keno
Keno uses a large board marked with the numbers 1 to 80.
In a basket are balls also numbered 1 to 80. Twenty balls are drawn at random.
The objective is to predict the numbers of the twenty balls drawn. You may choose
to bet on up to fifteen of the eighty numbers on the board in one play. Play
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Basically your keno strategy should be to enjoy yourself. Sure, that's
good advice no matter what game you're playing, but its even better for
keno... because there's not too much more to add.
That isn't to say there's nothing to learn. In fact, if you can simply learn
to understand your own motivations for playing the game, you'll become a more
intelligent player. First of all, lets look at the options available to us,
the player, when we first attempt to employ a keno strategy. What variables
do we have direct control over? Obviously we control the numbers we pick, and
on top of that the number of numbers we pick, and the casinos offer 'way' bets
to combine more than one bet on one card. Do these things have an outcome on
play? Well you'd be hard pressed to prove that the outcome of a keno game has
nothing to do with the numbers that come up, but you could pretty easily say
that it has nothing to do with the numbers that you choose. If you can affect
the numbers that come up with the numbers that you choose, then you're more
than a step ahead of me. Ok then, so what about our other variables? The number
of numbers you choose.
The sharp mind is going to say, hey, the odds have to change with the number
of numbers I pick, right? I mean, if I pick just two numbers, isn't there a
better chance of hitting 100% of those numbers than if I had picked 10? In
actuality yes, but as payouts fluctuate with the number of numbers picked,
the casinos compensate for any weak mathematics.
Basic bottom line advice? It doesn't really matter how
many numbers you choose, or if you combine or wheel your bets. Choose less
numbers if you like to win a little bit, a little more often; choose many
if you only really want to win once in keno, but you want it to put yourself
in the lap of luxury for life.
