Keno Lab Productions presents

The Dudehas enteredthe casino.

Four Card. Multi-Card. Hand Pays. Questionable Characters.

Welcome to the wonderfully irrational world of Keno Dude, where the drinks are cold, the machines are unforgiving, and the next twenty numbers are always about to change somebody's evening.

Sometimes for the better.

Sometimes for Platinum Tier Cal.

Illustration only. A frightened slot manager. Not a real person, and not the point.

Keno Dude from behind, in a white cap and the black Keno Dude jersey, walking into a casino. The jersey reads Shiggy, I love hand pays, and an 8-spot paytable.
On the floor. The jersey does the talking.
Front of the Keno Dude jersey on Keno Dude: Shiggy, spots 8 and 20, V2 CEI CY, a vodka soda graphic, and a purple side panel. The photograph is cropped below the eyes.
The man. The jersey. It's all real.

01 — Meet Keno Dude

The jersey says it all.

Some people go to Las Vegas to see the shows.

Some go for the restaurants.

Keno Dude shows up wearing an 8-spot paytable on his back.

The man. The jersey. The obsession with video keno. It's all real.

From Four Card and Multi-Card machines to the occasional glorious hand pay, Keno Dude chronicles the adventures, characters, triumphs, and spectacularly ill-advised decisions that make casino life endlessly entertaining.

I love hand pays.

It's not just a slogan. It's embroidered on the damn jersey.

02 — Casino adventures

What happens in Vegas...

...usually ends up as evidence.

Follow Keno Dude through the casinos, the machines, the late nights, and the occasional encounter that probably should have remained undocumented.

Four Card Keno

Four cards. Twenty numbers. One draw. Four opportunities to question your decisions.

Multi-Card Keno

20 cards. When four cards simply aren't enough ways to experience the same twenty numbers.

Hand Pays & Casino Adventures

Big hits, strange encounters, and the memorable moments that make it all worth talking about.

Multi-Card Keno screen at New York-New York Hotel & Casino.

The latest from the machines

The RNG Was Spittin' Out Winners!

Multi-Card Keno. Twenty cards. Five clusters. Four simultaneous 5-for-5 hits.

03 — Learn video keno

Know your game. Respect the math.

Anyone can push a button.

Understanding what happens afterward is where things get interesting.

Explore Four Card and Multi-Card video keno, paytables, probabilities, and the mathematics behind those beautiful, infuriating little numbers.

Because there's a big difference between knowing how to play and understanding what you're playing.

Keno Lab

Luck is random.
The math isn't.

Welcome to the other side of Keno Dude.

Behind the casino adventures, questionable choreography, and occasional hand pays lies a fascination with the mathematics of video keno.

Keno Lab is our experimental workshop for exploring Four Card and Multi-Card games, examining paytables, simulating enormous numbers of draws, and comparing the performance and volatility of different strategies.

No magic numbers.

No mystical systems.

Just mathematics, simulations, and the occasional uncomfortable truth.

The web-based Keno Lab is in development.

04 — The entourage

Every Dude needs a crew.

Unfortunately, this is the one he got.

Meet the collection of casino personalities who accompany Keno Dude through his adventures.

There's Fingers, whose interpretation of dancing has yet to receive public approval.

Platinum Tier Cal, who considers bankruptcy a temporary inconvenience and walking away a permanent character flaw.

Come On 29 Guy, whose relationship with a particular number has become alarmingly personal.

And Ice Cream, whose itinerary may or may not include an emergency fry bread stop.

Four personalities. One entourage.

Absolutely no adult supervision.

Fingers in a black bowl cut, smiling on a couch.

Fingers

Platinum Tier Cal in the desert, tipping the brim of a dark cap.

Platinum Tier Cal

Close-up of Come On 29 Guy in black-framed glasses.

Come On 29 Guy

Ice Cream at a fry bread stand, sunglasses on, one arm resting on the counter.

Ice Cream