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Posted on4/10/2022by admin

Video keno is essentially the same game - he same 80 numbers arranged in the same eight rows on a video screen. Just touch the screen to pick your numbers. Pay tables usually are better than at live keno, but you also play the video game much faster and risk more money per hour than with the live game. Problem Gambling Help Line BC Gambling Support Line 1-800-463-1554 1-888-795-6111. Need to Speak to a GameSense Advisor? Call the Customer Support Center at 1-866-815-0222. Need to Speak to a GameSense Advisor? Call the Customer Support Centre at 1-877-706-6789.

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Prize Claim Requirements and Expectations:

Please bring two pieces of valid government-issued identification when making your claim. The ID must include a recent photo, date of birth and signature.
Prizes will only be paid to the rightful ticket holder(s) or Group Trustee.
Group claims $10,000 and greater require a Group Prize AgreementForm.
Please note that the winner(s) must be present at BCLC during the entire processing time.
If winner(s) arrive at a payout location late in the day the prize may not be paid the same day.
If claiming at BCLC, all prizes are made payable by cheque. Only claims greater than $25 Million will be paid via wire transfer.

Prize Claim Restrictions:

Pacific Hold’Em Poker prizes must be claimed at a retail location where the game is sold. These tickets can also be presented to BCLC or Regional Prize Payout locations for prize payment.
All Pull Tab prizes must be claimed at the place of purchase on the same date the ticket was purchased. BCLC does not payout on pull tabs.
All merchandise prizes, cash equivalent prizes, and bonus prizes must be claimed in person from a BCLC Corporate Office.
Keno prizes of $2,000 or greater cannot be claimed the same day of the draw.
Tickets purchased in lottery jurisdictions outside BC must be claimed from the address located on the reverse of the ticket.
All prizes must be claimed prior to the expiry date as indicated on the ticket. Expiry dates for Scratch & Win tickets are printed on the reverse of the ticket and other lottery games' expiry dates are one year from the draw date printed on the front of the ticket. Please ensure you check the expiry date on Scratch & Win tickets at the time of purchase as BCLC will not honour prizes on expired tickets. To support physical-distancing requirements to help stop the spread of COVID-19, BCLC has extended the expiry date by six months for tickets with an expiry date between March 17 and September 17, 2020. For more information click here.

Additional Information:

Mondays (and Tuesdays after a statutory holiday) tend to have a higher volume of prize claims presented. Prize Claims processing wait times may be longer than other days of the week.
Free parking is available for winners at both BCLC Corporate Offices located at the front of the building and will be identified with appropriate signage.
When planning to claim your prize, please allow time for the processing of your claim. Refer to the prize claim processing times below for further details around expected processing times for your prize claim.

Although claim times can vary with each claim, the following guidelines will assist in planning your time:

Prize Value

Claim Time (on Average)

Prizes up to $2,000

15 Minutes

$2,000.01 - $9,999.99

30 to 45 Minutes

$10,000.00 - $25,000.00

2 Hours

$25,000.00 - $499,999.99

2 to 3 Hours

$500,000.00 - $9,999,999

3 to 5 Hours

Jackpots $10 Million +

2 Day Process

Mail-In-Claim (prizes below $9,999.99)

10-15 Business Days from Date Received

Please follow the guidelines below as to when you should arrive at either of the Corporate Offices:

Prize Value	Arrival Time
$10,000.00 - $25,000.00	Before 2pm
$25,000.01 - $499,999.99	Before 12pm
$500,000.00 +	Before 10am

Please note that BCLC has to verify all Prize Claims before payment is made and your prize may not be paid out the same day.

Keno's roots are in China, and the game was brought to the United States by Chinese immigrants in the late 1800s. It was originally played with 80 Chinese characters, which in the United States were replaced by 80 Arabic numerals.

For a time in Nevada, each number was accompanied by the name of a racehorse, and the game was known as racehorse keno. The horses' names disappeared in 1951, when a tax on off-track betting on horses was passed. Operators didn't want their game mistaken as betting on the horses. Still, remnants of racehorse keno games remain. Many casinos still call each game a 'race' -- if you bet on more than one game at once, you buy a multirace ticket.

Almost all Nevada casinos have keno lounges, where numbered balls are forced out through an air blower to determine the winners. Some tribal casinos in the upper Midwest also have live keno lounges, and Atlantic City began offering live keno in 1994. On riverboat casinos, keno enthusiasts play video versions, which have grown in flexibility and even offer bonus rounds in the video slot age.

How to Play

In the live version, the player may mark anywhere from 1 through 20 numbers on a card that has 80 numbers arranged in eight rows of ten. The player then takes the card to a keno writer and places a bet that the numbers selected will be among the 20 drawn in the next game. Alternatively, the player sitting in one of the casino restaurants can mark a card and give it with a bet to a keno runner, who takes it to the keno writer and then brings back the ticket. The bet is in multiples of the house minimum -- usually $1 nowadays.

After the 20 numbers are drawn, winning tickets are paid according to a table that varies from house to house. For example, a four-spot ticket with $1 wagered might return the $1 if two numbers hit, bring $5 if three numbers hit, and pay $120 if all four come in. But in another casino, the three-number hit might pay $6 and all four $125, and in another the payoffs might be $5 and $110. Because of the variation, no payback percentage is common enough to be called average. Paybacks range from below 70 percent to more than 80 percent.

Bets

Straight ticket: Betting the numbers marked as a single wager is called betting a straight ticket. It's the simplest way to play, but many players like to bet more combinations. One popular method is the 'way ticket.' For example, a player might mark six numbers, circle two groups of three, and mark on the side of the ticket, '2/3, 1/6.' The player then would bet $3 to have $1 wagers on each of two three-spot combinations and on the six-spot.

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King ticket: A number circled by itself is the king, which is used in all combinations marked. Let's say a seventh number in the previous example was circled as a king. The player then could mark '2/4, 1/7' to bet two four-number combinations -- the king joining each of the three-number groupings -- and the overall seven numbers.

Combination ticket: The player marks several number groupings and plays combinations of them. For example, a ticket with two-, three-, and four-number groupings can be played as 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5 (the two- and three-number groups together), 1/6 (two- and four-number groups), 1/7 (three- and four-numbers), 1/9 (all three groups). At $1 per game, the ticket would cost $7.

Progressive Jackpots

For higher-number totals played, or for bigger bets, many keno games offer progressive jackpots. Sometimes the progressive jackpot gets high enough that the house is actually offering more than 100 percent payback. Late in 1994, the jackpot on a $2 eight-spot ticket surpassed $200,000 at a casino in Las Vegas. At the $250,000 jackpot cap, the player would have an edge of 17.4 percent. Now that doesn't mean a player could sit down and win steadily at a 17 percent rate. Results can vary wildly over a short period of time. A player can expect to hit eight-of-eight on the average of once every 230,000 trials, and the casino's eight-spot was paying nothing below five-of-eight spots, so only 2 percent of all tickets would collect anything at all.

Strategy

Overall, the returns at keno are too infrequent for anyone to play the game seriously. A game or two over breakfast in the casino coffee shop or relaxing in the keno lounge is plenty for many people. But some players on a tight budget enjoy sitting in the keno lounge, being served free drinks and playing a buck at a time as an inexpensive way to spend the day.

For someone who wants to play seriously enough to go from casino to casino, the best strategy is simply to compare pay tables and play at the house that pays the most for the number of spots you select. There is no strategy for selecting numbers -- any number is as likely to come up as any of the others.

Video Keno

Video keno is essentially the same game -- he same 80 numbers arranged in the same eight rows on a video screen. Just touch the screen to pick your numbers. Pay tables usually are better than at live keno, but you also play the video game much faster and risk more money per hour than with the live game. Keno machines have followed the growth of video slots, increasing in popularity at the nickel level. Quarter and dollar games also are available.

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Regardless of how it's played, keno has emerged as a casino staple since being introduced to the United States more than 100 years ago.