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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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