Pickup Craps – Tips and Plans: The Background of Craps
Posted in Craps on 06/21/2022 03:25 am by Donovan
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Games that use dice and the dice themselves date all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is only about 100 years old. Modern craps evolved from the ancient English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the birth of the game, however Hazard is believed to have been discovered by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It is supposed that Sir William’s soldiers wagered on Hazard during a siege on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was derived from the castle’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when banished by the British, 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 preferred game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it more mathematically fair. It’s believed that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which is gotten from the name of the non-winning throw of two in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi barges and all over the country. A great many acknowledge the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of current craps. In 1907, Winn built the current craps setup. He added the Don’t Pass line so gamblers can wager on the dice to not win. At another time, he designed the boxes for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.