Be a Master of Craps – Tips and Plans: The Past of Craps
Be smart, play cunning, and learn how to play craps the right way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is only about a century old. Current craps developed from the old English game called Hazard. Nobody knows for certain the ancestry of the game, however Hazard is said to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the twelfth century. It is theorized that Sir William’s paladins bet on Hazard amid a blockade on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the citadel’s name.
Early French colonists brought the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when banished by the British, the French relocated south and discovered safety in the south of Louisiana where they a while later became Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they brought their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it more mathematically fair. It’s said that the Cajuns adjusted the title to craps, which was derived from the term for the bad luck toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi barges and throughout the country. A great many think the dice builder John H. Winn as the founder of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn developed the modern craps layout. He created the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could bet on the dice to lose. Later, he established the boxes for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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