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Power Keno

Last Update: Jan 04, 2004

The rules in Power Keno are the same as regular keno, except if the player catches the 20th ball drawn, then any winnings are quadrupled. The 20th ball drawn also counts as a catch if it does match. For example, the regular win for catching 3 on a pick 3 is 26, however if the 20th ball drawn is one of the player's three numbers then the player will win 26×4=104.

Following is the base pay table. This is what the player wins if he doesn't catch the 20th ball.

Catch	Pick
Catch	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	11	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	0	26	5	2	1	1	0	0	0
4	0	0	61	20	5	2	2	1	1
5	0	0	0	230	65	14	7	4	2
6	0	0	0	0	500	140	41	20	7
7	0	0	0	0	0	1250	600	150	45
8	0	0	0	0	0	0	2500	1000	500
9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3750	1750
10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5000

The next table shows the probability of each number of picks and catches.

Catch	Pick
Catch	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
0	0.56012658	0.41650438	0.30832143	0.22718421	0.16660175	0.12157425	0.08826624	0.06374784	0.0457907
1	0.37974684	0.4308666	0.43273183	0.40568609	0.36349473	0.31519251	0.26646411	0.22066559	0.17957138
2	0.06012658	0.13875365	0.21263547	0.27045739	0.30832143	0.32665405	0.32814562	0.31642614	0.29525678
3	0	0.01387537	0.04324789	0.08393505	0.12981955	0.17499324	0.21478623	0.24610922	0.26740237
4	0	0	0.00306339	0.01209234	0.02853792	0.05219097	0.0815037	0.11410518	0.1473189
5	0	0	0	0.00064492	0.00309564	0.0086385	0.01830259	0.03260148	0.05142769
6	0	0	0	0	0.00012898	0.00073208	0.00236671	0.00571956	0.01147939
7	0	0	0	0	0	0.0000244	0.00016046	0.00059168	0.00161114
8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00000435	0.00003259	0.00013542
9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00000072	0.00000612
10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00000011
Total	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

The next table shows the return of each number of picks and catches. The bottom row is the total return of the game. The body of the table is the payoff*probability*(1+3*(catches/20))

Catch	Pick
Catch	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0.85981013	0.36075949	0.27642611	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	0	0.52310127	0.31354721	0.24341165	0.18823834	0.2537402	0	0	0
4	0	0	0.29898709	0.38695482	0.22830334	0.16701109	0.26081184	0.18256829	0.23571024
5	0	0	0	0.25958219	0.35212888	0.21164337	0.22420667	0.22821036	0.17999691
6	0	0	0	0	0.12253569	0.1947324	0.18436699	0.2173432	0.15267595
7	0	0	0	0	0	0.06253155	0.19735985	0.18194111	0.14862795
8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.02390113	0.0717034	0.14896129
9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00638269	0.02517117
10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00140265
Total	0.85981013	0.88386076	0.88896041	0.88994866	0.89120626	0.88965861	0.8906465	0.88814906	0.89254615

The bottom row shows the overall return is about 89%, with the best return on the pick-10 at 89.25%.

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