Keno is a game of pure chance! Consequently, there is little
strategy, which can be employed to help increase your chances of
winning. Because numbers are chosen randomly, naturally, no numbers
that are drawn have any relation to those drawn previously.
Although it
sounds strange, if you choose five numbers on a ticket, there is no
greater chance of seeing 9, 21, 35, 38, and 57 come up, than seeing 1,
2, 3, 4, and 5.
So, although Keno differs from games like Blackjack and Poker
in that the participant's actions have very little bearing on the
outcome of the game, there exist, nonetheless, a few techniques that
some gamers "believe" will help. Although they cannot be correctly
labeled "strategic decisions", necessarily, the following tips and
techniques are widely used and can make the game more interesting:
Play the numbers that you haven't seen come up in recent games. The
theory is that they will start coming up in order to make the long-term
results for each number even out. Once again, however, the "random"
nature of the game prevents this from being a certainty.
Instead of betting on the numbers that haven't come up most often, a
lot of keno players will bet on the numbers, which have come up. As
much as it goes against the laws or chance and probability, there are
always interesting trends and patterns when dealing with randomly drawn
numbers, and these streaks can be very profitable when capitalized upon.
Pick successive numbers. Selecting pairs such as 12 and 13 or
perhaps 43 and 44 would qualify as successive numbers. Although there
is no proof this actually works over the long run, it does seem like
many of the numbers that come out are in consecutive pairs. This is a
very popular belief among many Keno players.
Use the same set of numbers consecutively. This strategy is very
simple and the most common: play the same selection of numbers for a
few rounds.
Remember that there is nothing 'strategic' about these systems, but
they definitely are a bit of fun and they certainly will not harm your
chances of winning.
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