Pickup Craps – Hints and Tactics: The Past of Craps
Be cunning, play smart, and pickup craps the proper way!
Dice and dice games date back to the Crusades, but modern craps is approximately 100 years old. Current craps developed from the old Anglo game referred to as Hazard. Nobody knows for certain the birth of the game, but Hazard is said to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It’s believed that Sir William’s soldiers bet on Hazard during a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was derived from the citadel’s name.
Early French settlers brought the game Hazard to Canada. In the 18th century, when banished by the British, the French moved south and located refuge in southern Louisiana where they a while later became Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they took their favorite game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it fair mathematically. It is believed that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which is derived from the term for the losing throw of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi riverboats and throughout the nation. A good many acknowledge the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn designed the modern craps setup. He added the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to lose. Afterwords, he created the boxes for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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