Game in bars, restaurants draws every 4 minutes

Keno, Ohio’s newest online lottery game that you can play every four minutes, is set to debut in bars and restaurants this summer.

The Ohio Lottery Commission approved rules Friday by a 5-3 vote, with some questioning if the game is too similar to casino and slot-machine gambling that voters have repeatedly rejected and Gov. Ted Strickland has renounced.

Strickland introduced the prospects of Keno in January as he plans to keep the state budget in the black. The $73 million that the game will generate each year will go toward education and help defer budget cutbacks that Strickland announced, said lottery Chairman Michael Dolan.