Be a Master of Craps – Pointers and Plans: The History of Craps
Posted in Craps on 05/20/2021 07:25 am by Donovan
Be clever, play cunning, and become versed in craps the right way!
Dice and dice games date all the way back to the Crusades, but modern craps is only about a century old. Modern craps come about from the 12th Century Anglo game called Hazard. No one knows for certain the ancestry of the game, however Hazard is believed to have been invented by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It is supposed that Sir William’s horsemen wagered on Hazard through a blockade on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the fortification’s name.
Early French settlers imported the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 18th century, when driven away by the English, the French relocated down south and settled in southern Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they took their best-loved game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it fair mathematically. It is said that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which was derived from the name of the bad luck toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi barges and across the nation. A good many consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the founder of modern craps. In 1907, Winn created the modern craps setup. He created the Do not Pass line so players can bet on the dice to lose. Afterwords, he established the boxes for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.