Learn to Play Craps – Pointers and Techniques: The Background of Craps
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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes all the way back to the Crusades, but modern craps is approximately a century old. Modern craps developed from the old English game called Hazard. No one knows for sure the ancestry of the game, however Hazard is said to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It’s presumed that Sir William’s paladins gambled on Hazard during a siege on the fortification Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was derived from the citadel’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when driven away by the English, the French moved down south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they a while later became known as Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they brought their best-loved game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it more mathematically fair. It’s said that the Cajuns altered the title to craps, which was gotten from the name of the non-winning toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi scows and across the country. A great many acknowledge the dice builder John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn assembled the modern craps layout. He created the Do not Pass line so players can wager on the dice to lose. Afterwords, he invented the spots for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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