Become Versed in Craps – Tips and Plans: The History of Craps
Be cunning, play smart, and pickup craps the right way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves date all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is only about a century old. Modern craps developed from the 12th Century English game called Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, however Hazard is believed to have been created by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, in the 12th century. It is theorized that Sir William’s paladins bet on Hazard amid a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was derived from the fortification’s name.
Early French colonists brought the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when exiled by the English, the French relocated down south and discovered safety in southern Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they brought their favorite game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it fair mathematically. It is believed that the Cajuns altered the title to craps, which is derived from the term for the non-winning throw of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi riverboats and all over the nation. Most consider the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn built the current craps setup. He put in place the Don’t Pass line so players could wager on the dice to not win. Later, he developed the spots for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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