Pickup Craps – Pointers and Schemes: The Past of Craps
Posted in Craps on 08/25/2023 03:25 am by Donovan
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Dice and dice games goes all the way back to the Crusades, but modern craps is just about 100 years old. Modern craps developed from the 12th Century Anglo game referred to as Hazard. No one knows for certain the origin of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It’s presumed that Sir William’s soldiers wagered on Hazard during a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was derived from the fortress’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when exiled by the English, the French relocated south and settled in southern Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it fair mathematically. It is believed that the Cajuns changed the title to craps, which is derived from the term for the bad luck toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi scows and across the nation. A great many think the dice builder John H. Winn as the founder of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn developed the modern craps setup. He put in place the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could bet on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he designed the boxes for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.