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Plus $180,000 Keno Bonus Jackpot prize $25,000 50,000 $75,000 $100,000 $500,000 $250,000 Plus $38,000 Keno Bonus Jackpot prize $5,000 $10,000 $15,000 $20,000 $25,000 $50,000 Plus $7,000 Keno Bonus Jackpot prize +Jackpot growth pool. See Keno game screens for current jackpot amounts. Keno prizes are subject to abatement. Keno is an exciting numbers game that’s easy to play! There are 80 numbered balls in the glass bowl that are mixed by a blower, and 20 balls are randomly drawn. The object of the game is to guess which numbers will be selected, and the minimum wager is just a dollar per ticket. If you guess right, you could win big!

Keno falls into that unwritten rule of casino games, if understanding it is easy, the odds of winning are more in the casino’s favor. Keno can be played throughout the casino, restaurant area and even in some hotel rooms. Similar to a lottery ticket, you select number(s) ranging from 1-80. Keno betting can be as simple as selecting one number or complex multiple numbers and combination of numbers selected. Each game numbers are drawn, similar to bingo, in the case of Keno only 20 numbers are drawn each game. The player can bet on 1-15 numbers with an occasional 16 and 20 number tickets available at some casinos.

Synopsis:
In most major casinos, they play Keno around the clock, on the average they play a new game every 9 minutes. Each casino will supply a payoff schedule for the various payoffs per number(s) selected. Beware! All casinos do not pay the same payoffs. Payoffs can range as much as 400% difference.

The attraction of Keno has two parts. Learning it is easy and the payoffs are usually great. Please remember that the odds of winning a big payoff are as remote as expecting to win the lottery. Betting costs are small, usually bets of seventy cents to one dollar are the norms. Under certain casino rules, a player can bet as little as one cent per way. A “way” is the term used to clarify what you have bet using combinations of numbers selected.

For example, a player may select three numbers, let us use 6, 17, 44. This could be a bet on all three numbers that would be one “way” or three single bets on each number or three bets on two numbers at a time. Therefore, seven different “ways” are possible to bet three numbers if you elect to bet every combination. Not only are the odds of winning not in your favor, making sure what casino pays the most money per each winning bet is vitally important.

An example of Keno variances is if you had selected eight numbers and all eight numbers were selected from the twenty numbers drawn, the payoff in Las Vegas could range from $25,000 to $100,000.00 depending on what casino you were gambling within.

Payoffs in Keno are determined by numbers matching the 20 numbers drawn. It does not matter in what order your selected numbers were drawn. If a player bet only one number, 39. If the number 39 was the first number drawn or the last of the twenty numbers drawn, the payoff would be the same. The Keno odds chart below shows the mathematical odds of winning at Keno when selecting 1 to 15 numbers. Payoffs are calculated on the average major Las Vegas casino.

Another word to the wise, in the history of Keno in Nevada casinos, no one has ever hit a 12-number ticket or higher for a $1 bet.

Introduction

Extra Draw Keno plays like conventional keno, except after the ball draw the player may purchase more balls for the price of his original wager. This page addresses the most common version found on IGT Game Makers, with three extra balls. There is also a version I've see in Amsterdam that offers two extra balls. The option is not offered if it is an extremely poor bet. The player wins according to the final ball draw, whether he chose the extra balls or not.

Following are three pay tables that I know of. The return is in the second to bottom row. The return is measured as the ratio of the total win less cost of the extra draw to cost of the initial draw. The bottom row shows those number of catches in the first 20 balls where the odds favor paying for the extra draw. For example, '36789' means to buy the Extra with 3, 6, 7, 8, or 9 catches in the first 20 balls.

Pay Table 1 has a maximum return of 87.66% on the Pick 6. On the Pick 6 the correct strategy is to buy the extra draw with 4 or 5 wins after the first 20 balls.

Extra Draw Keno — Pay Table 1

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Catch	Pick 3	Pick 4	Pick 5	Pick 6	Pick 7	Pick 8	Pick 9	Pick 10
0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	3	1	1	-	-	-	-	-
3	29	12	4	4	2	1	1	-
4	31	13	7	6	4	3	3
5	100	25	15	11	5	5
6	200	34	20	10	8
7	400	75	31	14
8	800	240	40
9	2,000	500
10	2,500
Return	86.03%	85.07%	87.11%	87.66%	87.43%	86.97%	87.64%	84.72%
Strategy	2	2	34	45	456	4567	5678	36789

Pay Table 2 has a maximum return of 89.94% on the Pick 6. On the Pick 6 the correct strategy is to buy the extra draw with 4 or 5 wins after the first 20 balls.

Extra Draw Keno — Pay Table 2

Catch	Pick 3	Pick 4	Pick 5	Pick 6	Pick 7	Pick 8	Pick 9	Pick 10
0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	3	1	1	-	-	-	-	-
3	30	12	4	4	2	1	1	-
4	36	14	7	7	5	3	3
5	100	29	13	10	5	5
6	200	28	15	12	9
7	400	55	30	15
8	800	240	50
9	2,000	500
10	2,500
Return	88.11%	87.65%	89.07%	89.94%	88.23%	87.28%	89.62%	86.69%
Strategy	2	23	34	45	356	3467	5678	356789

Pay Table 3 has a maximum return of 91.95% on the Pick 6. On the Pick 6 the correct strategy is to buy the extra draw with 4 or 5 wins after the first 20 balls.

Extra Draw Keno — Pay Table 3

Catch	Pick 3	Pick 4	Pick 5	Pick 6	Pick 7	Pick 8	Pick 9	Pick 10
0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	3	1	1	-	-	-	-	-
3	31	12	4	4	2	1	1	-
4	40	14	8	7	5	3	3
5	100	28	14	10	5	5
6	200	32	17	13	10
7	400	85	35	16
8	800	240	55
9	2,000	500
10	2,500
Return	90.19%	89.88%	89.07%	91.95%	90.40%	89.74%	91.53%	89.43%
Strategy	2	23	34	45	3456	34567	5678	356789

Pay Table 4 has a maximum return of 93.93% on the Pick 6. On the Pick 6 the correct strategy is to buy the extra draw with 4 or 5 wins after the first 20 balls.

Extra Draw Keno — Pay Table 4

Catch	Pick 3	Pick 4	Pick 5	Pick 6	Pick 7	Pick 8	Pick 9	Pick 10
0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	3	1	1	-	-	-	-	-
3	32	12	4	4	2	1	1	-
4	44	16	7	7	5	3	3
5	100	36	15	10	5	5
6	200	36	20	14	10
7	400	100	41	20
8	800	250	75
9	2,000	500
10	2,500
Return	92.27%	92.12%	92.99%	93.93%	92.81%	92.13%	93.71%	92.09%
Strategy	2	23	34	45	3456	34567	5678	356789

Pay Table 6 has a maximum return of 95.07% on the Pick 6. On the Pick 6 the correct strategy is to buy the extra draw with 4 or 5 wins after the first 20 balls.

Extra Draw Keno — Pay Table 5

Catch	Pick 3	Pick 4	Pick 5	Pick 6	Pick 7	Pick 8	Pick 9	Pick 10
0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	3	1	1	-	-	-	-	-
3	33	12	4	4	2	1	1	-
4	47	15	7	7	5	3	3
5	125	38	15	10	5	5
6	200	43	20	14	10
7	400	130	44	20
8	800	300	100
9	2,000	500
10	2,500
Return	94.35%	93.79%	94.51%	95.07%	94.07%	93.58%	94.81%	93.28%
Strategy	2	23	34	45	3456	34567	5678	356789

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Written by:Michael Shackleford