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Some experts like to say that there is no keno strategy, this is not true. There is always a way to get an edge in any game no matter how small. It may not generally be considered the sexiest game in the world of gambling, but keno has millions of devoted enthusiasts. And why not? It’s a consistently thrilling lottery-style game that’s easy to learn, readily available in a number of different formats, and one that can yield mega-dollars for those who master its many subtle intricacies. But let’s deal with the basics here.

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When describing keno to beginners, some gambling experts compare it to bingo. This is at least partially apt, in that both are essentially numerical. Yet to take that comparison too far would be to underestimate the many unique traits that make keno so compelling. Unlike bingo, keno players have the freedom to choose the numbers for each card.

How to Play keno

1. You decide how much you wish to bet on a particular round, and how many numbers you wish to choose. You can choose between 1 and 20 numbers, the payouts vary depending on how many numbers you pick and how many of them get drawn.
2. You now get to pick your numbers as you would if you were playing a Lottery. As with most Lotteries, many sites will give you an option to get the numbers picked for you at random. The numbers in Keno go from 1 to 80.
3. The game now starts and 20 of the 80 numbers are chosen at random.
4. If one of your numbers is picked, this is known as a ‘Catch’. You get paid depending on the number of Catches you get during the game.

Example
In the example free play game above, you start with $1,000 free credits. You can change the value of each game, this can be from $0.01 to $10.00. Click on Quick Pick and 10 numbers will be randomly chosen. You can change these if you wish, remove some or add more. Note that each time you add or remove a number, the paytable changes, both in terms of the minimum number of ‘catches’ you need to receive a payout and the level of each payout.

Once you are happy, click either Play 1 to play 1 game with those numbers, Play 5 to play 5 consecutive games with those numbers, or Play 10 to play 10 games with them. Remember that each game will cost you the same amount, so if you choose $1 per game and then Play 5, you will pay $5 – 5 games X $1 per game.

You will then see 20 numbers of the 80 get drawn at random, these will be marked off on the main game area with a red cross, and that you have will be marked off with a yellow square and will show on the right-hand side.
After each game, all winnings will get paid automatically into your balance and once all games have been played, you can start again.

Keno Payouts

The payouts for Keno differ from casino to casino, so ensure you look around to get the best payout if Keno is your game of choice.

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A standard payout structure is shown below (all amounts are payouts to 1):

Keno Odds

When playing a 20 spot game, so you choose 20 of the 80 numbers available, the odds are as follows:

The odds of picking 0 correct numbers is around 1 in 843

The odds of picking 1 correct number out of 20 is around 1 in 86

The odds of picking 2 correct numbers out of 20 is around 1 in 20

The odds of picking 3 correct numbers out of 20 is around 1 in 8

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The odds of picking 4 correct numbers out of 20 is around 1 in 4.8

The odds of picking 5 correct numbers out of 20 is around 1 in 4.2

The odds of picking 6 correct numbers out of 20 is around 1 in 5.2

The odds of picking 7 correct numbers out of 20 is around 1 in 8.8

The odds of picking 8 correct numbers out of 20 is around 1 in 20

The odds of picking 9 correct numbers out of 20 is around 1 in 61

The odds of picking 10 correct numbers out of 20 is around 1 in 253

The odds of picking 11 correct numbers out of 20 is around 1 in 1,423

The odds of picking 12 correct numbers out of 20 is around 1 in 10,968

The odds of picking 13 correct numbers out of 20 is around 1 in 118,084

The odds of picking 14 correct numbers out of 20 is around 1 in 1,821,881

The odds of picking 15 correct numbers out of 20 is around 1 in 41,751,453

The odds of picking 16 correct numbers out of 20 is around 1 in 1,496,372,110

The odds of picking 17 correct numbers out of 20 is around 1 in 90,624,035,964

The odds of picking 18 correct numbers out of 20 is around 1 in 10,512,388,171,906

The odds of picking 19 correct numbers out of 20 is around 1 in 2,946,096,785,176,811

The odds of picking 20 correct numbers out of 20 is around 1 in 3,535,316,142,212,173,800

The odds of getting all 20 numbers are a virtually impossible one in over 3.5 quintillions! As you can win by selecting significantly fewer numbers though, there are good returns to be had if your luck is in. As a result, when playing Keno, it is important to research the paytable to ensure you are getting the best possible returns for guessing between 2 and 8 numbers correctly as these are the payouts that you are most likely to win.

Keno Strategy

There is no magical Keno strategy that will guarantee you a win but there are many tips you will learn here to give you the best possible odds.

Although you can win higher amounts if you pick more numbers, the odds of winning reduce as you need more Catches in order to win.

As the numbers are chosen using a Random Number Generator, each of the 80 numbers has just as much chance as the others of being drawn, there will always be some Players who have numbers that they consider to be lucky though.

Generally speaking, the odds in Keno are about the same as those in Slots. There are better games with a higher chance of winning than Keno.

Keno cards have a total of 80 numbers, but the player is granted an additional level of personal responsibility by being able to choose as many (or as few) numbers as he or she desires. And it doesn’t take a nuclear physicist to figure out how to fill out a card: all you do is a circle or otherwise mark each of your chosen numbers with a good old #2 pencil as you used back in school (assuming you were born before the computer age). If this is the case, fear not. Keno does not discriminate against anyone’s age.

Once you’ve selected your numbers, carry the card back to the clerk at the keno booth. The clerk will record those numbers and then hand you a receipt. Don’t lose this (potentially) valuable piece of paper! Even if the clerk remembers your face and would like to help out, without a winning receipt in hand you will collect precisely $.00 for your efforts.

OK, so there you have tip #1: always be sure to keep your keno receipt. Let’s move on to something a bit more complex, shall we?

Once you’ve picked your numbers, settle into a comfy keno booth and watch the action unfold on big a video monitor. That’s where the winning numbers show up in lights. If you’ve got winners, mark your card accordingly. Be sure not to dally, or sit there congratulating yourself for an obnoxious length of time. You need to get back to the keno booth to redeem your winnings, as a new drawing will probably start within five minutes.

Tip #2: always get back to the booth on time!

Assuming you don’t trust yourself to beat that five-minute margin every time, you always retain the option of purchasing a “multi-race” ticket. These include the same set of your chosen numbers anywhere from 2 to 20 tickets. When the maximum number of games (matching the number of tickets) is finished, you can then get off your butt and go redeem your winnings.

Yet an additional option is known as a “stray and play” ticket, which usually lets you make number choices for 30 games or more. Heck, you can take an ocean cruise and not have to worry about getting back to port in time to redeem your numbers. Most “stray and play” tickets are good for up to a whole year after purchase!

So now you know a few essential strategies for winning keno. If you are an experienced player, they may seem stupidly obvious. But it never hurts to brush up on the fundamentals, and if you are a new player, every bit of information will help make your keno experience more enjoyable.

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The purpose of this video will be to answer the questions:

• What are the rules of keno?
• What are the chances of winning?
• What is the return to player for this bet?

Hi, this is Mike, and you are going to learn to calculate the odds in keno. Keno is a really simple game. To go over the rules real quick, the player picks 2 to 10 number from a range of 1 to 80, after the player is done, the game will pick 20 numbers from that some range of 1 to 80.

The player is paid according to…

…the number of balls that match the player's picks. For example, I picked five numbers, I matched only two of them, so I didn't win anything. If you pick five numbers, you need to match at least three to win anything.

Okay, so that time I matched three of them:the 17, 25, and 56. I won $3 based on a $1 bet, and when I say win, that's what I got back. In keno, all wins are on a 'for one' basis, meaning that, even if you win, you don't get back your original bet. So if you won one, it really would be just getting your original bet back like a push.

Click “See Pay”

This will show you the whole pay table according to the number of marks that you picked. For example, if you picked 10 numbers and matched 5 of them, you would win 5. If you matched 6, you would win 24. If you matched 7, 146, and so on.

This game, by the way:

can be found at videopoker.com, and my friends there kindly let me use their game for this video. Let's jump in and show you how to calculate the math.

Before I get into the mathematics of keno

Let me introduce a couple functions that you'll need to understand to go further. One of them is called the factorial function, and that is simply the product of every integer from one to whatever number you're taking a factorial of. For example, five factorial is equal to one, times two, times three, times four, times five, and that equals 120.

What is the practical use of this?

It is simply the number of ways you can order n objects. For example, the number of ways you could order the numbers 1 to 5 is 120.

Next, let's go to the combinations function

This is the number of ways you can pick Y things out of X items. For example, at El Pollo Loco, they have eight side dishes, and you might be allowed to pick three of them.

How many different ways could you pick three out of eight items?

The way you would express that is three choose eight, and the formula there is X factorial, divided by Y factorial, divided by X - Y factorial, where X is the number of items and Y is the number of times you're picking from it.

For example, in the El Pollo Loco example where they have eight side dishes and you can pick three, the number of combinations is eight factorial divided by eight minus three-factorial, which is five factorial, divided by three factorial, which works out to 56, I believe.

For my next example, let's work out the odds in the case of the pick five:

If the player gets all five right, he will win 838. The number of ways that can happen is 20 choose 5, which equals 15,504. The number of ways the player can get four correct, which pays 13, is equal to the number of ways the player can pick 4 out of the 20 winning numbers, or 20 choose 4 times the one way he can pick the losing number. That equals 290,700.

The lowest win is to get three correct out of the five, so the number of combinations of the ways the player can pick three out of the 20 winning numbers is 20 choose 3 times the number of ways the player can pick two out of the 60 losing numbers, and that equals 2,017,800.

Now…

we actually don't need to implicitly calculate the number of losing calculations. Let's just determine the total number of all combinations, winning and losing. That is simply the number of ways the player can pick 5 numbers out of 80 because there are 80 numbers and the player must pick five of them. That equals 24,040,016.

Next, let's multiply the pays by the combinations to get.

Again, the return combinations, or the amount the player will get back if we went through a cycle of all the ways of everything that could happen. 838 times 15,504 is 12,992,352. 13 times 290,700 is 3,779,100. 3 times 2,017,800 is 6,053,400.

We take the total of all these return combinations, and we get 22,824,852. In other words, if the player plays this game 24,040,016, and $1 each time, he could expect to get back $22,824,852. If we calculate his return, that's simply that 22 million figure divided by the 24 million figure, which equals 94.95%.

Another way of expressing that is…

The player can expect to get almost 95% of his money bet, and the other 5.05% is kept by the game or the casino. I should add that this is a very generous paytable here. This is as generous as it gets. Most of the time, the pay table is less, you win less, which goes to show the importance of scouting around for a good pay table.

Finally

Let's look at the odds picked in keno in Excel. The number of ways the player can correctly pick 10 out of 10 equals the number of ways the player can pick 10 numbers out of the 20 drawn by the game, which equals 184,756.

The number of ways the player can get 9 out of 10 right equals 20 choose 9 times 60, for the one incorrect number. A general formula for any number of correct catches is 20 choose the number of those catches times 60 choose the number of incorrect picks, which can be expressed like this here:

We can just copy and paste that down. Let's copy and paste it up as well to see if I did it right. Yes.

I'm not going to bother calculating the number of losing combinations, just the total number of combinations, which is the number of ways the player can pick 10 numbers out of the full 80. The return is the combinations times the win.

Let's copy and paste that down and take the total

If the player played this 1,646,492,110,120 times, he could expect to get back $1,534,456,875,040, on average. What is the value of his bet? Well, let's put that in the percentage. That comes out to 93.2%. In other words, for every dollar the player bets, he can expect to get back 93.2% of it and the other 6.8 percent goes to the casino.

I might remind you, again…

…that not every pay table is this generous. In fact, this is the most generous. Lots of times, this 24 is a 23 or less. This 146 is often less. The big pays tend to be the same, though. Again, I can't emphasize enough, shop around for the good pay tables.

Finally, I hope you'll humor me and let me plug my website here. It has a cornucopia of keno resources starting with this keno game. You can pick 1 to 15 numbers. You can pick the numbers yourself or you can do a quick pick. You can also put it on autoplay.

Besides this, we have a bunch of keno calculators. I'll just show you the one for plain old keno. Let's do that pick 10 paytable I just did. You may recall that getting 10 right pays 10,000. Nine pays 45,000. Eight pays 1,000. Seven pays 146. Six pays 24. Five pays 5. Click calculate and there we see everything. The probability of every win, the frequency, variants. Here we see the return.

The bottom line…

…here is that same 91.2%. I hope you can see that small figure that I showed you how to calculate yourself. I just don't talk about regular keno. I talk about Power Keno, Super Keno, Cleopatra Keno, Caveman Keno, Caveman Keno Plus, Extra Draw Keno, Triple Power Keno.

I indicate resources about the return of every possible game and pay table you may plausibly find here in Las Vegas, keno surveys, who has the best games here in Vegas, and a whole ton of internal links about keno. I say a lot about keno because frankly, the math of it is pretty easy.

All right. I think this video has run long enough. Thanks for watching. I'll see you next time.