Be a Master of Craps – Pointers and Techniques: The Background of Craps
Be clever, play clever, and master craps the proper way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves date back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is only about 100 years old. Modern craps evolved from the ancient Anglo game called Hazard. No one knows for certain the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is said to have been created by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It’s believed that Sir William’s soldiers enjoyed Hazard through a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the castle’s name.
Early French colonists imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when banished by the British, the French headed south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they at a later time became Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they brought their favorite game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s said that the Cajuns altered the title to craps, which is acquired from the name of the non-winning throw of 2 in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi riverboats and across the country. A good many acknowledge the dice maker John H. Winn as the founder of modern craps. In 1907, Winn developed the modern craps setup. He put in place the Do not Pass line so gamblers can bet on the dice to lose. At another time, he designed the boxes for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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