Be a Master of Craps – Tricks and Techniques: The Past of Craps
Posted in Craps on 05/16/2017 02:25 am by Donovan
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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes back to the Crusades, but modern craps is approximately a century old. Current craps developed from the old Anglo game called Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the birth of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been created by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the 12th century. It is believed that Sir William’s soldiers bet on Hazard through a siege 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 Canada. In the 1700s, when banished by the British, the French moved down south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they at a later time became Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s believed that the Cajuns adjusted the title to craps, which was acquired from the name of the losing throw of two in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi scows and across the country. A good many acknowledge the dice builder John H. Winn as the founder of modern craps. In 1907, Winn created the current craps setup. He put in place the Don’t Pass line so players could bet on the dice to lose. Afterwords, he established the spaces for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.