A Winning Strategy for Keno
The game of keno has the highest house edge of all the casino games and that is about 25%. But there are some ways to while away your time inside the keno lounge and spending little money betting on the game.
Here is a keno strategy that will cost you only a little amount but do gives a higher chance of winning some money or just even out your bet.
Choose any four numbers that you want and an example is the numbers 11, 19, 25, and 43. Play these numbers in keno as a way ticket. Many casinos will allow you to play keno in three or more ways at half of the common one-dollar rate.
Fill out a keno ticket using the four chosen numbers and then circle a single number and circle the other three numbers as one group. For example, you could circle 11 as the single number and circle 19, 25, and 43 as the group of three numbers.
Doing this will let you play this keno ticket in three different ways: 1/1 - single number, 1/3 - group of three numbers, and 1/4 - all the four numbers. If you play at 50 cents per way, the cost of playing this keno ticket is only $1.50 for every keno game.
On average, there are about six to eight keno games played in every hour of the day. If ever you don't win any of your number, your hourly expenditure on keno will only be $12 as the maximum. Now, that's a cheap way to gamble and a good deal actually.
If ever you win in any of your four chosen numbers, the payoffs that you will collect are the following:
- $1 for getting two of three and two of four, meaning two of the numbers within the group of three. - $1.50 for getting one of one, meaning only the circled single number. - $2 for getting one of one and two of four, meaning the single number and one of the numbers within the group of three. - $3.50 for getting one of one, two of three, and three of four, meaning the single number and two of the numbers within the group of three. - $24 for getting three of three and three of four, meaning all the numbers within the group of three. - $82.50 for getting one of one, three of three, and four of four, meaning all the four chosen numbers.
These payoffs in keno may differ slightly from one casino to another. The good thing about this keno strategy is that you will only spend a small amount in an hour at the keno lounge and have a good chance of winning back your money and maybe more.