Keno at the tracks is similar. Players select between two numbers and 20 numbers, hoping the computer will match them as it chooses 20 numbers from a screen full of 100 different numbers. The more numbers you pick and match on each play, the more you win. Unless you want to change numbers, just hit the same button over and over. At Tri-State Greyhound, Keno is by far the most popular game.
Most players come from West Virginia.
But scores of cars from Ohio and Kentucky are in the parking lot. Inside the track, players are young and old, female and male, black and white. Video machine gamblers tend to be less sociable than players betting on the dogs. Women tend to play more than men. And few say a word, or look at anyone, while they play.