Pickup Craps – Pointers and Tactics: The Background of Craps
Be cunning, play cunning, and pickup craps the ideal way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes back to the Crusades, but modern craps is approximately a century old. Modern craps evolved from the 12th Century Anglo game called Hazard. No one knows for sure the origin of the game, however Hazard is said to have been invented by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the 12th century. It’s theorized that Sir William’s knights bet on Hazard during a siege on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was acquired from the citadel’s name.
Early French settlers imported the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 1700s, when expelled by the English, the French moved south and settled in southern Louisiana where they at a later time became known as Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it more mathematically fair. It’s believed that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which is acquired from the term for the non-winning toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi barges and throughout the nation. Many think the dice maker John H. Winn as the founder of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn created the modern craps layout. He added the Do not Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to lose. Afterwords, he created the boxes for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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