Learn to Play Craps – Tricks and Tactics: The Past of Craps
Be clever, play clever, and master craps the correct way!
Dice and dice games date back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is approximately a century old. Current craps evolved from the old Anglo game referred to as Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is said to have been discovered by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the 12th century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s knights wagered on Hazard amid a siege on the fortification Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the castle’s name.
Early French colonizers brought the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when driven away by the English, the French relocated down south and settled in southern Louisiana where they eventually became known as Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it more mathematically fair. It’s said that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which is acquired from the name of the losing throw of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi riverboats and across the nation. Most consider the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn developed the modern craps layout. He added the Do not Pass line so gamblers can wager on the dice to lose. Later, he developed the spots for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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