Pickup Craps – Tips and Tactics: The Background of Craps
Posted in Craps on 12/30/2023 12:25 pm by Donovan
Be cunning, play cunning, and learn how to play craps the proper way!
Dice and dice games date all the way back to the Crusades, but modern craps is approximately one hundred years old. Modern craps developed from the old English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody knows for certain the birth of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been discovered by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It is believed that Sir William’s soldiers wagered on Hazard during a blockade on the fortification Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the citadel’s name.
Early French colonists brought the game Hazard to Canada. In the 18th century, when exiled by the British, the French moved down south and located sanctuary in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they brought their favored game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s believed that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which was gotten from the name of the losing throw of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi riverboats and across the nation. A good many think the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn built the modern craps setup. He created the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to lose. Afterwords, he designed the spots for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.