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How could I have been so blind as to ignore Keno all these years? A Keno regular tipped me off that the 8-spot was the best bet for the money. So I went over to the Keno counter, where games go on every fifteen minutes or so, and bet twenty-five 8-spot games at a buck each. When the game was over, to my delight 1 found that I had won $260 on my investment of twenty-five bucks.
I pocketed the windfall and decided then and there that on my next Vegas visit I would play Keno exclusively.
Ten days later I returned to Las Vegas, and the Sahara.
Once in my room, I unpacked my working tools: an accountant's yellow pad, a ruler, and a fine-line accountant's pen that I had purchased especially for the trip. Off to the Keno Lounge, where I zeroed in on the trash cans toward the back, and fished out all the discarded cover sheets from the previously played games. I sorted them out, amassing a complete set of the past 26 games.
Now 1 was ready.
I set to work on the tedious job of tracking the winning numbers of all 26 games on my yellow-lined accountant's pad. Thirty minutes later I had it all down. I went back to the trash can to retrieve and tally the games played since.
Now I had all the information I needed. It was time to play Keno for keeps. If I was serious in my endeavor, it meant that I should play Keno on steady a basis. I couldn't just play a couple cards at a time.
I played one hundred 8-spot games at a buck a game, every game. I played and I tallied. And I played and I tallied. And I played and I tallied. For sixteen straight hours, nonstop, I played the game and then tallied it onto my sheet. To keep my wits about me, I eschewed alcohol and lived solely on coffee frosteds and tomato juice, which, from time-to-time necessitated rapid, punctuated trips to the nearest men's room to run some water through my lingam.
When the smoke cleared sixteen hours and thousands of games later, did I ever get an eight-out-of-eight and make that $25,000 windfall?
The answer is no.
Did I win or did I lose during my Keno marathon? Again, the answer is no to both questions. Okay, let me explain.
Keno is like a greased pig—you almost have it, but, dammit, the oily porker always slips out of your clutches. There were times during the sixteen-hour marathon when I was two or three thousand ahead, only to hit a dry spell where everything evened out, and even dipped into the minus column. During my 16-hour marathon I had a 7-out-of-8 in the first ten numbers picked, only to be zeroed out in the next ten numbers. All I needed was one number out of the second ten, just one more goddam number, but it never did show up.
The Keno writers worked on six-hour shifts, six hours on and twelve off. As I was on a sixteen-hour marathon, just before I was ready to call it a day, the first shift returned. "Oh, I see you're back," commented a Keno writer as he marked up my tickets.
"I never left," I told him.
He peered at me intently for a moment, then muttered, "Buddy, you're bulletproof."
When, bowing to sheer exhaustion, I packed it in at the end of the sixteen-hour marathon session, I was about $600 ahead—a $600 profit for playing almost 15,000 games! Without a doubt, it was the hardest $600 I ever made, gambling or otherwise. I blindly stumbled out of the Keno Lounge down the hall to my hotel room. Once in my room, I was afraid to take a bath in my zombie-like condition,- I feared I'd drown in the tub! Instead I staggered into the shower. Once under the soothing warm water I closed my eyes—just for a second—and fell asleep standing up! I only know this because as I slumped against the shower wall I was jarred awake by my own snoring! Needless to add, I was forever cured from playing Keno.
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In most casinos today Keno is an electronic, computer-fed game. Twenty numbers out of a pool of eighty are zapped with machine-gun rapidity onto huge electronic screens on the sides of the casino.
Keno wasn't always played this way. Up until the 1990s it was a manually operated game, with the eighty numbered ping-pong balls in a transparent fishbowl-shaped container. Two rabbit-ear-shaped transparent tubes stuck out on top, and ten balls were air-blown into each. The whole operation was up front and visible to all the players in the Keno Lounge. No mysterious numbers shooting out of the blue onto electronic wall boards.
It was during the late 70s that I got a bug up my ass to investigate this oddball casino game that offered a $25,000 payoff for a buck investment. At the tail-end of a flying weekend, I had lots of time to spare before my flight home. Plunking myself down in the Sahara's Keno Lounge, mostly as a time-killer, I reached over to the nearest trash can and fished out the cover sheets of the last dozen or so games. (See illustration.)
I tallied all the winning numbers, game-by-game, curious to see if there was any pattern to the drawn numbers. As soon as I finished the tally, I ordered a bottle of beer and examined what I had.
What I saw before me really got my attention. Some Keno numbers repeated regularly, while other numbers never came up at all! Now I was interested. I went back to the trash can and tallied in the four games that were played while I was doing my paperwork, which brought me up-to-date.
Actually I had some advance knowledge of the potential of Keno. Once, years ago, when a friend's son was too young to enter a Las Vegas casino, he sat in the lobby, spending his time keeping track of the Keno board above the hotel registration desk. When his father came by, the son mentioned to him that certain numbers were repeating. The father invested $22.50 in variations of the numbers. Not one came up on the next game. Not discouraged he repeated the bets. The second time around, the 12-year-old won $2,500.
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