Pickup Craps – Hints and Schemes: The Background of Craps
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Dice and dice games date all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is only about 100 years old. Current craps developed from the 12th Century Anglo game called Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, however Hazard is said to have been discovered by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the 12th century. It’s presumed that Sir William’s horsemen bet on Hazard through a blockade on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the fortification’s name.
Early French colonizers brought the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when driven away by the British, the French moved down south and located safety in the south of Louisiana where they eventually became Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it more mathematically fair. It’s said that the Cajuns altered the name to craps, which was gotten from the name of the non-winning toss of two in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi barges and all over the country. A good many consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In 1907, Winn built the current craps layout. He created the Don’t Pass line so gamblers can bet on the dice to lose. At another time, he invented the boxes for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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