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Cleopatra Keno

Last Update: Jan 03, 2009

Cleopatra Keno is a video keno variant in which the player wins 12 free games if the last ball drawn contributes to a player win. All wins in free games are doubled. Free games do not earn additional free games.

The following pay table was taken from a $1/$2 game at the New York New York casino in Las Vegas.

Cleopatra Keno — NYNY Pay Table
Catch	Pick 3	Pick 4	Pick 5	Pick 6	Pick 7	Pick 8	Pick 9	Pick 10
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	17	5	3	2	1	0	0	0
4	0	35	22	5	3	3	2	1
5	0	0	220	34	6	10	5	3
6	0	0	0	375	95	56	10	5
7	0	0	0	0	500	180	80	25
8	0	0	0	0	0	1000	200	150
9	0	0	0	0	0	0	1000	1000
10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2000

The next table shows the number of combinations for each possible number of picks and catches.

Catch	Pick 3	Pick 4	Pick 5	Pick 6	Pick 7	Pick 8	Pick 9	Pick 10
Cleopatra Keno — Combinations
0	34220	487635	5461512	50063860	386206920	2558620845	14783142660	75394027566
1	35400	684400	9752700	109230240	1001277200	7724138400	51172416900	295662853200
2	11400	336300	6501800	92650650	1037687280	9512133400	73379314800	486137960550
3	1140	68400	2017800	39010800	555903900	6226123680	57072800400	440275888800
4	0	4845	290700	8575650	165795900	2362591575	26461025640	242559401700
5	0	0	15504	930240	27442080	530546880	7560293040	84675282048
6	0	0	0	38760	2325600	68605200	1326367200	18900732600
7	0	0	0	0	77520	4651200	137210400	2652734400
8	0	0	0	0	0	125970	7558200	222966900
9	0	0	0	0	0	0	167960	10077600
10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	184756
Total	82160	1581580	24040016	300500200	3176716400	28987537150	231900297200	1646492110120

The next table shows the probability for each possible number of picks and catches, before considering the bonus.

Catch	Pick 3	Pick 4	Pick 5	Pick 6	Pick 7	Pick 8	Pick 9	Pick 10
Cleopatra Keno — Probability of Winning
0	0.41650438	0.30832143	0.22718421	0.16660175	0.12157425	0.08826624	0.06374784	0.0457907
1	0.4308666	0.43273183	0.40568609	0.36349473	0.31519251	0.26646411	0.22066559	0.17957138
2	0.13875365	0.21263547	0.27045739	0.30832143	0.32665405	0.32814562	0.31642614	0.29525678
3	0.01387537	0.04324789	0.08393505	0.12981955	0.17499324	0.21478623	0.24610922	0.26740237
4	0	0.00306339	0.01209234	0.02853792	0.05219097	0.0815037	0.11410518	0.1473189
5	0	0	0.00064492	0.00309564	0.0086385	0.01830259	0.03260148	0.05142769
6	0	0	0	0.00012898	0.00073208	0.00236671	0.00571956	0.01147939
7	0	0	0	0	0.0000244	0.00016046	0.00059168	0.00161114
8	0	0	0	0	0	0.00000435	0.00003259	0.00013542
9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00000072	0.00000612
10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00000011
Total	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

The next table shows the contribution to the return for each possible number of picks and catches, before considering the bonus.

Catch	Pick 3	Pick 4	Pick 5	Pick 6	Pick 7	Pick 8	Pick 9	Pick 10
Cleopatra Keno — Before Bonus Return
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0.41626095	0.21263547	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	0.23588121	0.21623946	0.25180516	0.2596391	0.17499324	0	0	0
4	0	0.10721873	0.26603144	0.14268959	0.1565729	0.2445111	0.22821036	0.1473189
5	0	0	0.14188343	0.10525171	0.05183103	0.18302586	0.1630074	0.15428306
6	0	0	0	0.04836935	0.06954728	0.13253596	0.05719558	0.05739697
7	0	0	0	0	0.01220128	0.02888193	0.04733427	0.04027858
8	0	0	0	0	0	0.00434566	0.00651849	0.0203129
9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00072428	0.00612065
10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00022442
Total	0.65214216	0.53609365	0.65972003	0.55594975	0.46514573	0.59330052	0.50299039	0.42593549

The next table shows the probability of winning the bonus for each possible number of picks and catches, before considering the bonus.

Catch	Pick 3	Pick 4	Pick 5	Pick 6	Pick 7	Pick 8	Pick 9	Pick 10
Cleopatra Keno — Bonus Probability
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0.01387537	0.02126355	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	0.0020813	0.00648718	0.01259026	0.01947293	0.02624899	0	0	0
4	0	0.00061268	0.00241847	0.00570758	0.01043819	0.01630074	0.02282104	0.02946378
5	0	0	0.00016123	0.00077391	0.00215963	0.00457565	0.00815037	0.01285692
6	0	0	0	0.0000387	0.00021962	0.00071001	0.00171587	0.00344382
7	0	0	0	0	0.00000854	0.00005616	0.00020709	0.0005639
8	0	0	0	0	0	0.00000174	0.00001304	0.00005417
9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00000033	0.00000275
10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00000006
Total	0.01595667	0.02836341	0.01516996	0.02599312	0.03907497	0.0216443	0.03290772	0.0463854

Pick	Return Before Bonus	Bonus Return	Total Return
Cleopatra Keno — Return
3	0.652142	0.249744	0.901887
4	0.536094	0.364931	0.901024
5	0.659720	0.240190	0.899910
6	0.555950	0.346821	0.902771
7	0.465146	0.436213	0.901359
8	0.593301	0.308198	0.901498
9	0.502990	0.397254	0.900245
10	0.425935	0.474172	0.900108

So, the bottom line is that this particular pay table returns 90% of money bet.