Learn to Play Craps – Pointers and Tactics: The History of Craps
Posted in Craps on 02/29/2020 06:25 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 English game referred to as Hazard. No one absolutely knows the beginnings of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been discovered by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It is theorized that Sir William’s paladins gambled on Hazard amid a blockade on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was derived from the fortification’s name.
Early French colonists brought the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 18th century, when displaced by the English, the French relocated down south and discovered refuge in southern Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns modernized 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 toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi scows and throughout the country. A few consider the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn developed the current craps setup. He added the Don’t Pass line so players can wager on the dice to lose. Later, he created the spaces for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.