Keno Odds

The reverse side of the Keno card will often show the potential payout and odds for matching, or in Keno terms, catching, one or more of the twenty numbers, which are called during a Keno game. Typical examples of tables of online and live casino payouts and odds follow. First is an example of an online version.

Information: This tool was created to help Keno lovers to play the game more strategically. Use this tool to determine the payout of the game at each casino, and to choose the best one. This calculator helps you determine the best strategy to use when playing keno.

Generally, this strategy is very simple. The best thing to do is to play ALWAYS with the number of spots that maximize your payout. Please not that using this optimal strategy ONLY means that you can improve your chances, but REMEMBER that the house STILL has an advantage over you.

Instructions: Change the cells in light blue to fit your data. That’s It.

Payout Schedule
		SPOTS
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
HITS	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	2
	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2		14	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	3			40	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	4				150	13	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	5					800	100	30	10	5	2	0	0	0	0	0
	6						1800	400	120	60	25	10	5	2	2	0
	7							8000	1600	300	150	100	40	22	10	12
	8								30000	4000	1200	500	250	85	45	30
	9									50000	10000	2500	1200	600	350	120
	10										100000	25000	5000	3700	1100	300
	11											100000	25000	12000	8000	2800
	12												100000	50000	25000	25000
	13													100000	50000	50000
	14														100000	100000
	15															100000
Probability Distribution
		SPOTS
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
HITS	0	0.75	0.56	0.417	0.308	0.227	0.167	0.122	0.088	0.064	0.046	0.033	0.023	0.016	0.012	0.008
	1	0.25	0.38	0.431	0.433	0.406	0.363	0.315	0.266	0.221	0.18	0.144	0.114	0.089	0.069	0.052
	2		0.06	0.139	0.213	0.27	0.308	0.327	0.328	0.316	0.295	0.268	0.238	0.207	0.176	0.148
	3			0.014	0.043	0.084	0.13	0.175	0.215	0.246	0.267	0.278	0.28	0.273	0.259	0.24
	4				0.003	0.012	0.029	0.052	0.082	0.114	0.147	0.179	0.206	0.227	0.242	0.25
	5					0.001	0.003	0.009	0.018	0.033	0.051	0.074	0.099	0.126	0.152	0.176
	6						0	0.001	0.002	0.006	0.011	0.02	0.032	0.048	0.066	0.086
	7							0	0	0.001	0.002	0.004	0.007	0.012	0.02	0.03
	8								0	0	0	0	0.001	0.002	0.004	0.007
	9									0	0	0	0	0	0.001	0.001
	10										0	0	0	0	0	0
	11											0	0	0	0	0
	12												0	0	0	0
	13													0	0	0
	14														0	0
	15															0
Expected Payout
		SPOTS
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
HITS	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.033	0.023	0.016
	1	0.75	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2		0.842	0.278	0.213	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	3			0.555	0.173	0.168	0.13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	4				0.46	0.157	0.143	0.157	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	5					0.516	0.31	0.259	0.183	0.163	0.103	0	0	0	0	0
	6						0.232	0.293	0.284	0.343	0.287	0.202	0.161	0.095	0.132	0
	7							0.195	0.257	0.178	0.242	0.361	0.281	0.271	0.199	0.359
	8								0.13	0.13	0.163	0.206	0.255	0.186	0.188	0.22
	9									0.036	0.061	0.071	0.114	0.156	0.213	0.152
	10										0.011	0.026	0.027	0.074	0.066	0.046
	11											0.002	0.004	0.011	0.03	0.035
	12												0	0.001	0.004	0.016
	13													0	0	0.001
	14														0	0
	15															0
# Spots:		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Exp. Payout:		0.75	0.842	0.833	0.845	0.841	0.814	0.904	0.854	0.85	0.866	0.868	0.843	0.827	0.854	0.844
House Edge:		0.25	0.158	0.167	0.155	0.159	0.186	0.096	0.146	0.15	0.134	0.132	0.157	0.173	0.146	0.156

Naive Strategy:

Number of Spots – Random
Expected Payout – 84.23%
House Edge – 15.77%

Optimal Strategy:

Number of Spots – 7
Expected Payout – 90.38%
House Edge – 9.62%