Pickup Craps – Hints and Tactics: The Background of Craps
Posted in Craps on 10/25/2019 05:25 pm by Donovan
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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is approximately one hundred years old. Modern craps evolved from the old English game called Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the birth of the game, however Hazard is said to have been discovered by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It’s presumed that Sir William’s knights wagered on Hazard amid a blockade on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was acquired from the fortification’s name.
Early French settlers brought the game Hazard to Canada. In the 18th century, when displaced by the English, the French moved south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they at a later time became Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they brought their favored game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it fair mathematically. It is said that the Cajuns adjusted the title to craps, which is acquired from the term for the losing toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi riverboats and throughout the country. A few think the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn built the current craps setup. He created the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could bet on the dice to not win. Later, he established the spots for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.