Four Card Keno To Win Bigger, More Often And Play Longer
How It Changed My Gambling Life

It never was my intention to become a Four Card Keno enthusiast. Let alone developing a strategy for the game.

My game of choice was Video Poker and I sort of looked down on Keno players for playing a game with terrible odds. Plus, Keno doesn’t give you much to say about the outcome. But here I am, telling the true story of how I came to develop a simple method of winning more often, playing for a longer period of time, and experiencing bigger jackpots playing Four Card Keno.

Just about everything I had read about gambling told me that
Over a period of time and after some deep research and experimenting I created a system of what I call Keno Smart Charts. Little did I realize that thousands of Keno players, all over the world, would be using my strategy to get more bang out of their Keno bucks. My email inbox is literally filled with hundreds of letters from Keno players thanking me for sharing the system with them.

Mine is not a sappy rags to riches story. I want to be clear about that. The truth is that I was a successful video poker player when I made this discovery. I would be considered to be a semi-professional; traveling to Las Vegas regularly as a comped player. You probably know the drill – free suites, free dinning and shows. I wasn’t a ‘whale’ by any means but my wife would jokingly refer to us being marked as ‘tuna fish’.

From what I knew, only the games of Blackjack and Video Poker would give you a fighting chance in the casino. Not only that, but most of us are taught to stay away from Keno because it’s one of the worst games in the casino. As a student of gambling I understood that so I rarely played Keno. And I thought I was so smart for doing so.

Eventually the casinos got wise to advantage Video Poker players and many of them tightened up the pay tables on the machines and took away a lot of the benefits that they were giving us. And as I got older it was increasingly more difficult to travel. For those reasons and others my wife and I made the difficult decision limit our video poker to local Indian casinos where the pay tables were just short of being criminal. But we limited our play and considered any losses as the cost of entertainment.

It was on one of our nights out that some guy sitting across from me yelled out, at the top of his lungs, “I got it.” He had been playing Four Card Keno and he had just won a big $7,000 jackpot.

That’s when I decided to dig deeper into video keno. I discovered that a 7 spot in Four Card Keno had roughly the same odds as getting a Royal Flush as in video poker. And the kicker was that a 7 spot paid $7,000 for my dollar bet while the Royal only paid a thousand (for 1 $1.25 bet). Since the video poker tables were so bad in the Indian casino, I could totally rationalize playing the ‘worst game in the house’, Keno – and specifically, Four Card Keno.

Seeking Four Card Keno Success

Being a former video poker player I naturally thought in terms of playing Keno with some sort of strategy. Even though I knew that it was strictly a game of chance, my instinct was to find a way to put that chance as much on my side of the ledger as possible. To my way of thinking, life is like that. There’s always a way of doing something that’s better than the other way. So, for the the longest time I found testing different things. I tried different patterns, certain rows, straight lines, squares, filling up an entire block. Every now and then I would hit a nice jackpot but in the end it seemed like everything I read about Keno was true. But still, I kept on trying to find a better way. A system for a game of pure luck.

One day I was playing Four Card Keno and I hit a 7 spot but it was on two of the four cards. Holy cow was I excited. That was serious money. What made it happen was hitting a the 7 spot on the two cards of course. And wanting to do that again took me on a journey to unlock the absolute best way of playing Four Card Keno. It was immediately obvious that having some numbers in common between the 4 cards was part of the key. But there was more. What was I missing?

In my mind there was something different about the numbers that I played when I hit those two 7 spots. So I took a closer look at the numbers on the other other two cards. What was interesting was that the other two cards were also winners. Just smaller amounts. But winners nevertheless. Seeing the relationship between those lesser wins to the big hits led me to develop my system of Keno Charts.

The idea would be to expand the available numbers and and at the same time having a perfectly balanced amount of numbers overlapping between cards. So I fired up the computer and went to work. What I found blew my mind. Don’t get me wrong, I was skeptical at first. But I just knew that I was onto something big. After many hours of test games, calculations and experimenting with different spots, I proved that it was possible to play Four Card Keno many times more efficiently and, best of all, win bigger jackpots do it much more often.

Keno Math Made Easy

There was one problem that really bothered me. It just took too long to calculate the proper numbers to play on the four cards for all the different spots. Especially on the larger ones like 6, 7 and eight spots. It simply took too much time away from actually playing the game. I had to come up with an easier way.

Again I went to work. I started working with spreadsheets thinking that they could make the process easier. Yes, it could be done but it was still a hassle. Then one day I was testing a spreadsheet for various five spot numbers and I saw a pattern develop. It was a pattern, not numbers, that was common between different winning spots. If I could duplicate the pattern, regardless of the numbers that I was using, it would be phenomenal.

Was it possible that there was a way to setup winning patterns for every Four Card Keno spot? Could I increase my chances of winning no matter what spot I played? The answer was a resounding YES! Indeed, I had stumbled upon a simple way to strategically balance any numbers across all Four Card Keno cards. That meant more hits, bigger jackpots and longer playing time – for sure! Best of all, with the charts that I created, anybody could do this!

How To Download The Four Card Keno Smart Charts

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Video Poker and Video Keno players have some new and exciting games to play based on which IGT unveiled at the Global Gaming Expo last week in Las Vegas. IGT simply continues to put on its leadership position by offering a large number of innovative slot games with the most popular multiplier awards.  And now Keno and Video Poker players can join the fun.

A fresh version of IGT’s ever-popular Game King video poker title has been introduced. The possible content bundle now includes roulette and other concepts centered on such successful slot titles likeDa Vinci Diamonds Keno, for example.

Bound to be always a winner is the Asian-themed Lucky 8’s Wheel Poker. IGT has continued to develop new variations of  The Wheel Poker video poker format.

Ultimate X and Super Times Pay poker are exciting multi-hand games offering a random multiplier that can result in big payoffs.The games add significantly to the excitement and anticipation factors when playing.

And the exact same multiplier feature has been added for video keno players to enjoy. So there’s a whole new level of excitement with such games as Ultimate X Keno and Super Times Pay Keno that you will have to checkout. IGT is without a doubt adding a brand new dimension of heart pounding experiences with the addition of such games.

Followers of TheMagicGambler.com will undoubtedly be especially pleased to observe that Ultimate X Keno will be incorporated with Four Card Keno, among the most used video keno games of all time. The programming has been developed to randomly allow multipliers to appear about 50 % the full time for each of the four hands. The multipliers can be anything from doubling your win entirely around paying twelve times the normal payback.

The multipliers appear per card and are based on the previous card’s results, similarly to how a multipliers in video poker are awarded on the last hands.

Another game that’s in the exact same format can be found with Super Times Pay Keno, which is designed to give players more action at a lower price point. The multipliers in Super Times Pay occur randomly and roughly every seven draws. The special awards range between two times to five times the payout.

You can tryout these and other new games at the IGT/Action Gaming site. All play on the internet site is free however, you will look up where you can play for sure at a casino near you.

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There still seems to be an opinion out there that keno is a poor game to play, that it is a sucker’s game, and should be avoided due to its “high” house advantage (house edge). Is this really true? On the surface, maybe, but in reality, no. In fact, in some cases the house edge at keno is actually competitive.

As this column is being written there are keno opportunities with practically no house edge. The 9-spot progressive at The Atlantis Reno is over $1,200,000 thus is close to 100% return. The 10-spot Mega Keno is over $2,000,000 and climbing and may approach break even before it is hit. The other progressives get to positive territory at times.

On top of this, casinos such as The D offer returns of 85% on special tickets (Deano rate), throw in comps and offers, especially tourneys, and you are close to break even as well. In some tournament situations you might even have a mathematical advantage.

Those who worship lowest house advantage are neglecting another part of the equation, game speed. If you play a $5 keno ticket every 10 minutes with a house edge of 15%, in an hour you would lose, on the average (ignoring comps), $4.50.

If you are an average blackjack player with standard rules at a $5 table, you would lose about $10. If you have a fair concept of basic strategy you would lose about $5.

Betting $5 on the pass line at craps would yield similar results.

Game speed is just as important as house edge. Thus, before one bad mouths keno they should do their research. You may say many keno tickets hold 20% to 30%, which is true, but just like you look for the best bets at craps to lower the house edge, the keno player can do the same by looking for tickets and special rates that return more.

For example, the 80-cent rate downtown in many casinos averages about a 25% house edge, but if you play the 5-spot the house edge drops to 18%. This rate is available at the California Hotel (Island Rate), Fremont (pop 80 rate), El Cortez (40 cent rate) and The D (Deano rate).

Of course, just like there are very poor bets at many table games there are poor bets at keno. Just avoid them, and look for the better returning tickets.

If you are from out of town, plan your vacation around a keno tournament and you really have the best of it. The tourney prize fund basically eliminates the house edge and you still get free or discounted rooms and meals, and often a small gift as well. This can be the best that Las Vegas has to offer.

Use the excellent transit system to get around while in town, subscribe to Las Vegas Advisor to get their excellent coupon book and The Casino Guide and you definitely have the best of it. Thus, you will find playing keno within your means is not a bankroll buster or a game to be avoided, but a good game to play and be enjoyed.

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For those that don’t use the Mystic Keno Smart Charts, let me give you a little background: One of the tried and proven methods of multiplying your Keno jackpots is by using a mathematical reduction. That is, taking a group of numbers (base) and arranging them into smaller groups in the most efficient manner.

In Four Card (or 20 Card) Keno, we know that the more numbers that you chose the more likely you are to win something. But the fewer numbers that you chose the bigger the jackpot is going to be when you do win.  So the best approach is going to be a blend of selecting more numbers and having as many of those numbers overlap (from one card to the other) as possible. We use a base number to make that happen.

A base number is larger than your target spot. If your target is a 5 spot, your base number might consist of 7 numbers that would be reduced to play 5 spots on the four different cards. The trick is to overlap the keno base numbers in a balanced way so that you have exposure to more possibilities and at the same time increase the amount of your winnings by winning on more than one card. So that’s the story of base numbers and why we use them in the Mystic Keno Smart Charts.

When it comes to choosing your base numbers, that’s entirely up to you. You can use whatever numbers that pop into your head, birthdays, ages of your friends, whatever numbers that you want to use. Having said that, there are the techniques like the using of quadrants, triplets and others that are discussed in greater detail in the e-booklet. But the beauty of using the charts is that they work with any numbers that you plug in.

GB / TMG

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Usually I’ll set my sites on a 6 spot when I play Four Card Keno. The reason I do that is because I’ll get a good shot at a sizeable win while still getting a decent payback when I hit the lower wins. That’s different than going for the 5 spot which will bleed you dry unless you get 5 out of 5 fairly quick, although the 5 spot can be a better game under certain circumstances . We’ll save that discussion for another time. Playing the Four Card Keno 6 spot can stretch your bankroll and by doing so you’ll have more opportunities to win the big 6 out of 6. And if you play smart, and ‘get in the zone’, you’ll be surprised at how often that will happen.

One of the ways to play smart is to use the strategy that I outline in the video below. It’s one of three strategies that I use when I play for the 6 spot and if you use it, I think you’ll see why. When I do stray from video poker and move over to Four Card Keno, this strategy will often give me a jackpot. The other method that I use is distributing base numbers evenly across all four keno cards. It’s a little more complicated so I developed a system of charts to do the work for me.  Actually, the technique in the video below uses a partial distribution strategy because it’s based on the mystic 3 spot. Checkout the Chart Pack to find out more about it.

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