Be a Master of Craps – Tricks and Techniques: The Past of Craps
Be clever, play cunning, and discover how to play craps the correct way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is approximately a century old. Current craps developed from the ancient Anglo game referred to as Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is said to have been created by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s paladins played Hazard amid a siege on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the citadel’s name.
Early French colonizers brought the game Hazard to Canada. In the 18th century, when exiled by the British, the French moved down south and discovered sanctuary in the south of Louisiana where they at a later time became known as Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they took their favorite game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it more mathematically fair. It’s believed that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which is derived from the name of the losing throw of two in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi barges and across the nation. Most consider the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In 1907, Winn built the modern craps layout. He added the Do not Pass line so gamblers could bet on the dice to lose. Later, he developed the spots for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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