Online Keno vs. Lotteries

I recently bought a lotto ticket; I was feeling lucky and when I passed a lotto sales point I gave in to my feeling and bought a ticket. In the past, I've always picked certain numbers - dates, ages, etc - pretty common stuff. This time I filled out the ticket so that the shaded numbers formed the first letters of my kids' names. I was feeling pretty confident and optimistic when I gave in the ticket; I was ready to win. Instead, I waited. And waited… and waited.

I had forgotten how frustrating a state lottery can be. You get all excited and that's great but then you have to wait for the results and that's a drag. By the time the results come in you may have forgotten about the ticket at the bottom of your bag and even if you haven't forgotten, your enthusiasm level has probably dropped considerably. You vow that next time you'll buy your ticket right before the deadline but then something comes up and another lottery goes by without you. The whole thing can be annoying.

Online Keno is Instant Gratification

If all this sounds familiar, you should definitely consider keno as a lottery alternative. It used to be that you had to go to a real casino to play keno, and, when that was the case, the lottery was more convenient and easily available. But now that you can play keno online, on your own computer in your own house, keno is way more accessible. It is so similar to the lottery that once you start playing keno you'll forget that the lottery ever existed.

The differences are slight but the similarities between keno and a lottery are many. In online keno, you select between 1 and 15 numbers out of 80. In a state or national lottery, you usually choose 6 numbers (out of a smaller field) and there's usually a bonus number drawn, as well. These are differences that do affect the odds - in truth, your chances of winning the big prize in either the lottery or keno are pretty small; however, a small win in keno pays off more than a small win in a lottery so that's something to consider, too.

The big advantages of playing online keno as opposed to a state or national lottery are the convenience and, getting back to the beginning of this article, the wait (or the lack thereof). When you play online keno, you pick your numbers and in seconds the computer comes back with the winning numbers and you know - just about instantly - whether or not you've won. If you're the impatient type, online keno is just the ticket, no matter what kind of ticket you fill out.