Master Craps – Pointers and Tactics: The Past of Craps
Be cunning, play clever, and discover how to play craps the right way!
Dice and dice games date all the way back to the Crusades, but modern craps is approximately 100 years old. Current craps come about from the ancient English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the origin of the game, however Hazard is said to have been invented by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It is believed that Sir William’s paladins bet on Hazard through a blockade on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was acquired from the castle’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when expelled by the English, the French relocated down south and settled in southern Louisiana where they a while later became Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it more mathematically fair. It’s believed that the Cajuns altered the name to craps, which was gotten from the term for the bad luck toss of two in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi riverboats and across the nation. Many think the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn developed the current craps setup. He created the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could bet 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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