Learn To Play Keno

Playing a Simple Keno Ticket

Consider you want to play a $1 4-spot. First get a blank ticket, using a crayon put an "X" to the 4 numbers you pick. On the upper right side of a keno ticket put"$1" and under it write the number"4" indicating your going for a 4-spot Again write the number"4" for the dealer's verification and rewriting the numeral "4" is important if you are to play fancy combination tickets.

Bring your mark ticket to the "writer" at the front window of a keno lounge. It's just like falling in line at a blockbuster film waiting for your turn to get to the teller window. Once at the keno writer give your ticket and corresponding payment for validation. The dealer or writer will issue a duplicate copy of your ticket and keeping the original ticket. Keno writer uses a brush and an India ink for making a copy for you while other keno lounges use computers to generate other copies. A player must check the ticket for verification before leaving the window. It is important that the copy given to a player matches with the original ticket.

After securing a ticket a player must look for a comfortable place while waiting for the rest of the players to get set. The house then declares that the game is now "close" if all the players are accounted for. All original tickets are then bundled together and can be seen in a video camera. Balls at the hopper are then mixed and the portal is open allowing balls to squeeze out. The dealer announces every ball drawn out of the hopper. A switch at the Keno board lit a light corresponding to each number dealers then return to the station after the 20th ball (last ball) is called. Immediately, winners claim their prize while the unlucky ones now pick their combinations for the next draw. Under US tax law lottery winners must cashed the winning ticket otherwise casinos deduct certain percentage or the whole winning payout. This is so to protect casinos for future liabilities.

Loosing ticket can be use for the game provided you hand it over to the dealers along with the payment and they will make another copy. This is done to save on time. A player need not again marked a new ticket. This procedure also works for winning tickets. Players who collects payout amount is ask by the dealer if he wants to play again. If the player answers in the affirmative then a new copy will be issue.