Pickup Craps – Tips and Tactics: The Past of Craps
Posted in Craps on 06/17/2018 02:28 pm by Donovan
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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes back to the Crusades, but current craps is approximately one hundred years old. Current craps formed from the ancient English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, however Hazard is believed to have been invented by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It is supposed that Sir William’s paladins wagered on Hazard during a siege on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was derived from the fortification’s name.
Early French colonists imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when exiled by the English, the French moved down south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they at a later time became known as Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it fair mathematically. It is believed that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which is derived from the term for the non-winning toss of two in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi barges and all over the nation. Most think the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn designed the current craps setup. He added the Do not Pass line so players can wager on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he invented the spots for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.