Become Versed in Craps – Tricks and Plans: The Past of Craps
Be cunning, play brilliant, and become versed in craps the proper way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves date all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is just about 100 years old. Current craps developed from the 12th Century English game called Hazard. No one absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, however Hazard is believed to have been discovered by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s paladins enjoyed Hazard amid a siege on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was derived from the fortification’s name.
Early French colonists brought the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 1700s, when exiled by the British, the French headed down south and settled in southern Louisiana where they eventually became known as Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns altered the name to craps, which is acquired from the term for the bad luck toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi river boats and across the country. A great many consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In 1907, Winn built the current craps layout. He put in place the Don’t Pass line so players could wager on the dice to lose. Later, he invented the spaces for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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