Pickup Craps – Tricks and Schemes: The Past of Craps
Posted in Craps on 03/14/2022 11:25 am by Donovan
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Games that use dice and the dice themselves date back to the Crusades, but modern craps is approximately a century old. Modern craps formed from the ancient Anglo game called Hazard. No one knows for sure the beginnings of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been discovered by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the 12th century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s horsemen gambled on Hazard during a blockade on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the citadel’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when displaced by the English, the French moved south and found refuge in the south of Louisiana where they a while later became known as Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it fair mathematically. It is said that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which was derived from the term for the losing toss of two in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi scows and throughout the country. A few acknowledge the dice maker John H. Winn as the founder of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn developed the current craps layout. He added the Don’t Pass line so players can wager on the dice to lose. At another time, he developed the boxes for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.