Be a Master of Craps – Hints and Techniques: The Past of Craps
Be brilliant, play cunning, and learn how to play craps the right way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes back to the Crusades, but current craps is only about a century old. Current craps evolved from the ancient English game called Hazard. No one absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is believed to have been made up by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the 12th century. It is supposed that Sir William’s paladins enjoyed Hazard through a siege on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the fortification’s name.
Early French colonizers brought the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when driven away by the British, the French headed down south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it mathematically fair. It’s said that the Cajuns adjusted the title to craps, which was acquired from the name of the non-winning 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 1907, Winn assembled the modern craps layout. He appended the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could bet on the dice to not win. Later, he developed the spots for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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