Pickup Craps – Tricks and Techniques: The Past of Craps
Be cunning, play smart, and learn how to play craps the correct way!
Dice and dice games date back to the Crusades, but modern craps is only about a century old. Modern craps formed from the 12th Century Anglo game called Hazard. Nobody knows for certain the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is said to have been created by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It is supposed that Sir William’s soldiers played Hazard amid a blockade on the fortification Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the fortress’s name.
Early French colonizers brought the game Hazard to Canada. In the 18th century, when driven away by the British, the French headed south and settled in southern Louisiana where they at a later time became known as Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they took their favorite game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s said that the Cajuns altered the title to craps, which was derived from the term for the bad luck toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi river boats and across the country. A good many acknowledge the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In 1907, Winn assembled the current craps setup. He created the Do not Pass line so players could wager on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he established the spots for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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