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Keno for real money: minimums, pace and getting paid

Table floors, how fast the hour runs, and what happens between a winning hand and money in your bank.

6%BEST AVAILABLE EDGE
C$6.00PER C$100 STAKED
240ROUNDS AN HOUR
25%WORST BET ON THE FELT

What changes when the money is real

Stakes start at ten or twenty cents a draw, which is the reason the hourly cost sneaks up: the per-draw number is tiny and the draw count is not.

Compare paytables between builds before you compare anything else. The same pick-four bet can be two full percentage points apart in two lobbies.

The floor is lower than you think

Live minimums on a phone start well below what a physical room can offer, often a dollar, and the common floor sits around C$5. Plan a session around the floor rather than around the biggest table in the lobby.

Everything settles instantly, so the balance on screen is the balance you can move. That puts the whole question back on the cashout flow, which across our board runs from three taps to eleven with a median of 5.

The cheapest bet here is pick 4, online paytable at 6%. The most expensive is land-based or lottery keno at 25%. Both are on the same felt and the room does not mind which one you pick.

Rooms with a low way in

Sorted on the minimum deposit, because a first deposit is a test rather than a commitment. The routine is written up as the C$20 test.