Be a Master of Craps – Tricks and Tactics: The Past of Craps
Posted in Craps on 02/10/2023 10:25 pm by Donovan
Be cunning, play smart, and master craps the ideal way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves date all the way back to the Crusades, but current craps is only about a century old. Modern craps come about from the old Anglo game referred to as Hazard. No one knows for certain the birth of the game, however Hazard is said to have been invented by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the 12th century. It is presumed that Sir William’s paladins wagered on Hazard amid a siege on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the fortress’s name.
Early French settlers brought the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 18th century, when banished by the British, the French relocated south and located safety in the south of Louisiana where they a while later became known as Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it fair mathematically. It is said that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which is derived from the name of the non-winning throw of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi barges and all over the country. Many acknowledge the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn designed the modern craps setup. He appended the Do not Pass line so gamblers could bet on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he designed the spots for Place wagers and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.