Be a Master of Craps – Pointers and Tactics: The Past of Craps
Be brilliant, play clever, and become versed in craps the correct way!
Dice and dice games date all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is only about one hundred years old. Current craps evolved from the 12th Century English game called Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the birth of the game, but Hazard is said to have been created by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It is presumed that Sir William’s knights enjoyed Hazard through a blockade on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the fortification’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 18th century, when exiled by the English, the French relocated south and found sanctuary in the south of Louisiana where they a while later became known as Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they took their best-loved game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it more mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which is derived from the name of the non-winning toss of two in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi river boats and throughout the country. A good many acknowledge the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In 1907, Winn created the current craps setup. He added the Do not Pass line so players could wager on the dice to not win. At another time, he designed the spaces for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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