A lot of gamblers say to stay away from keno because of the high house advantage, which can be up to 20 percent. Here is an example: To catch one number, the real odds are 25 percent or 4 to 1. For the odds to be perfect, the house should pay $4 for every $1 bet. But in reality, the house pays $3 for $1 bet.

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1. Also, these are not the kind of tips that would get you kicked out of a casino in Las Vegas. These are the Keno strategy tips that were proven to work by many players worldwide.
2. The prize tables in keno can look a bit complicated. Here’s our quick tips on what to look out for in keno pay schedules. Each casino has its own system of payouts, which you will find set out in the Keno brochures or payout schedules around the casino or, if you’re playing Video keno you’ll find a payout table on each machine.

Introduction

Following are 15 tables, according to the number of numbers chosen, and the probability of matching any given number, the payoff table at the Atlantic City Tropicana, the contribution toward the expected return, and the total expected return for all possible matches. Following the tables is an explanation of how the probabilities were calculated.

Pick 1

Catch	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return
0	0	20	0.250000	0.000000
1	3	60	0.750000	2.250000
Total	0	80	1.000000	2.250000

Pick 2

Catch	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return
0	0	1770	0.560127	0.000000
1	0	1200	0.379747	0.000000
2	12	190	0.060127	0.721519
Total	0	3160	1.000000	0.721519

Pick 3

Catch	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return
0	0	34220	0.416504	0.000000
1	0	35400	0.430867	0.000000
2	1	11400	0.138754	0.138754
3	43	1140	0.013875	0.596641
Total	0	82160	1.000000	0.735394

Pick 4

Catch	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return
0	0	487635	0.308321	0.000000
1	0	684400	0.432732	0.000000
2	1	336300	0.212635	0.212635
3	3	68400	0.043248	0.129744
4	130	4845	0.003063	0.398241
Total	0	1581580	1.000000	0.740620

Pick 5

Catch	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return
0	0	5461512	0.227184	0.000000
1	0	9752700	0.405686	0.000000
2	0	6501800	0.270457	0.000000
3	1	2017800	0.083935	0.083935
4	10	290700	0.012092	0.120923
5	800	15504	0.000645	0.515940
Total	0	24040016	1.000000	0.720798

Pick 6

Catch	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return
0	0	50063860	0.166602	0.000000
1	0	109230240	0.363495	0.000000
2	0	92650650	0.308321	0.000000
3	1	39010800	0.129820	0.129820
4	4	8575650	0.028538	0.114152
5	95	930240	0.003096	0.294086
6	1500	38760	0.000129	0.193477
Total	0	300500200	1.000000	0.731534

Pick 7

Catch	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return
0	0	386206920	0.121574	0.000000
1	0	1001277200	0.315193	0.000000
2	0	1037687280	0.326654	0.000000
3	0	555903900	0.174993	0.000000
4	1	165795900	0.052191	0.052191
5	25	27442080	0.008639	0.215963
6	350	2325600	0.000732	0.256227
7	8000	77520	0.000024	0.195220
Total	0	3176716400	1.000000	0.719601

Pick 8

Catch	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return
0	0	2558620845	0.088266	0.000000
1	0	7724138400	0.266464	0.000000
2	0	9512133400	0.328146	0.000000
3	0	6226123680	0.214786	0.000000
4	0	2362591575	0.081504	0.000000
5	9	530546880	0.018303	0.164723
6	90	68605200	0.002367	0.213004
7	1500	4651200	0.000160	0.240683
8	25000	125970	0.000004	0.108642
Total	0	28987537150	1.000000	0.727052

Pick 9

Catch	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return
0	0	14,783,142,660	0.063748	0.000000
1	0	51,172,416,900	0.220666	0.000000
2	0	73,379,314,800	0.316426	0.000000
3	0	57,072,800,400	0.246109	0.000000
4	0	26,461,025,640	0.114105	0.000000
5	4	7,560,293,040	0.032601	0.130406
6	50	1,326,367,200	0.005720	0.285978
7	280	137,210,400	0.000592	0.165670
8	4000	7,558,200	0.000033	0.130370
9	50000	167,960	0.000001	0.036214
Total	0	231,900,297,200	1.000000	0.748637

Pick 10

Catch	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return
0	0	75,394,027,566	0.045791	0.000000
1	0	295,662,853,200	0.179571	0.000000
2	0	486,137,960,550	0.295257	0.000000
3	0	440,275,888,800	0.267402	0.000000
4	0	242,559,401,700	0.147319	0.000000
5	1	84,675,282,048	0.051428	0.051428
6	22	18,900,732,600	0.011479	0.252547
7	150	2,652,734,400	0.001611	0.241671
8	1000	222,966,900	0.000135	0.135419
9	5000	10,077,600	0.000006	0.030603
10	100000	184,756	0.000000	0.011221
Total	0	1,646,492,110,120	1.000000	0.722890

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Pick 11

Catch	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return
0	0	342,700,125,300	0.032708	0.000000
1	0	1,507,880,551,320	0.143914	0.000000
2	0	2,808,797,105,400	0.268074	0.000000
3	0	2,916,827,763,300	0.278385	0.000000
4	0	1,871,172,527,400	0.178587	0.000000
5	0	776,190,085,440	0.074080	0.000000
6	8	211,688,205,120	0.020204	0.161630
7	80	37,801,465,200	0.003608	0.288625
8	400	4,310,693,400	0.000411	0.164567
9	2500	297,289,200	0.000028	0.070934
10	25000	11,085,360	0.000001	0.026450
11	100000	167,960	0.000000	0.001603
Total	0	10,477,677,064,400	1.000000	0.713808

Pick 12

Catch	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return
0	0	1,399,358,844,975	0.023227	0.000000
1	0	6,854,002,506,000	0.113766	0.000000
2	0	14,324,865,237,540	0.237770	0.000000
3	0	16,852,782,632,400	0.279730	0.000000
4	0	12,396,517,994,025	0.205763	0.000000
5	0	5,987,752,087,680	0.099387	0.000000
6	5	1,940,475,213,600	0.032209	0.161044
7	32	423,376,410,240	0.007027	0.224876
8	200	61,427,380,950	0.001020	0.203920
9	1000	5,747,591,200	0.000095	0.095401
10	5000	327,018,120	0.000005	0.027140
11	25000	10,077,600	0.000000	0.004182
12	100000	125,970	0.000000	0.000209
Total	0	60,246,643,120,300	1.000000	0.716772

Pick 13

Las Vegas Keno Odds

Catch	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return
0	1	5,166,863,427,600	0.016396	0.016396
1	0	27,987,176,899,500	0.088810	0.000000
2	0	65,113,023,807,000	0.206619	0.000000
3	0	85,949,191,425,240	0.272737	0.000000
4	0	71,624,326,187,700	0.227280	0.000000
5	0	39,668,857,580,880	0.125878	0.000000
6	1	14,969,380,219,200	0.047501	0.047501
7	20	3,880,950,427,200	0.012315	0.246303
8	80	687,986,666,640	0.002183	0.174651
9	600	81,903,174,600	0.000260	0.155939
10	3500	6,322,350,320	0.000020	0.070218
11	10000	297,289,200	0.000001	0.009434
12	50000	7,558,200	0.000000	0.001199
13	100000	77,520	0.000000	0.000025
Total	0	315,136,287,090,800	1.000000	0.721665

Pick 14

Catch	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return
0	1	17,345,898,649,800	0.011501	0.011501
1	0	103,337,268,552,000	0.068519	0.000000
2	0	265,878,180,545,250	0.176294	0.000000
3	0	390,678,142,842,000	0.259044	0.000000
4	0	365,284,063,557,270	0.242206	0.000000
5	0	229,197,843,800,640	0.151973	0.000000
6	1	99,172,143,952,200	0.065757	0.065757
7	9	29,938,760,438,400	0.019851	0.178662
8	42	6,306,544,444,200	0.004182	0.175629
9	310	917,315,555,520	0.000608	0.188554
10	1100	90,093,492,060	0.000060	0.065711
11	8000	5,747,591,200	0.000004	0.030488
12	25000	222,966,900	0.000000	0.003696
13	50000	4,651,200	0.000000	0.000154
14	100000	38,760	0.000000	0.000035
Total	0	1,508,152,231,077,400	1.000000	0.720188

Pick 15

Catch	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return
0	1	53,194,089,192,720	0.008016	0.008016
1	0	346,917,972,996,000	0.052279	0.000000
2	0	981,704,051,244,000	0.147939	0.000000
3	0	1,595,269,083,271,500	0.240401	0.000000
4	0	1,660,382,107,078,500	0.250213	0.000000
5	0	1,168,909,003,383,260	0.176150	0.000000
6	0	572,994,609,501,600	0.086348	0.000000
7	10	198,344,287,904,400	0.029890	0.298897
8	25	48,650,485,712,400	0.007331	0.183286
9	100	8,408,725,925,600	0.001267	0.126716
10	300	1,009,047,111,072	0.000152	0.045618
11	2800	81,903,174,600	0.000012	0.034559
12	25000	4,310,693,400	0.000001	0.016240
13	50000	137,210,400	0.000000	0.001034
14	100000	2,325,600	0.000000	0.000035
15	100000	15,504	0.000000	0.000000
Total	0	6,635,869,816,740,560	1.000000	0.714402

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Written by:Michael Shackleford