Become Versed in Craps – Pointers and Strategies: The Past of Craps
Be clever, play brilliant, and master craps the proper way!
Dice and dice games goes back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is only about 100 years old. Current craps evolved from the ancient English game referred to as Hazard. No one absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is believed to have been created by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the 12th century. It is presumed that Sir William’s paladins wagered on Hazard during a blockade on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the fortification’s name.
Early French colonists imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 18th century, when exiled by the British, the French moved down south and located refuge in the south of Louisiana where they eventually became Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they brought their favorite game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it mathematically fair. It’s believed that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which is gotten from the name of the losing throw of two in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi barges and all over the country. A few consider the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn assembled the current craps setup. He created the Don’t Pass line so gamblers can bet on the dice to not win. Later, he invented the spaces for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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