Pickup Craps – Tips and Tactics: The Past of Craps
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Dice and dice games goes all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is approximately a century old. Modern craps come about from the ancient Anglo game referred to as Hazard. No one absolutely knows the birth of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been created by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s paladins played Hazard during a blockade on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was derived from the citadel’s name.
Early French colonizers brought the game Hazard to Canada. In the 18th century, when driven away by the British, the French relocated down south and discovered safety in the south of Louisiana where they at a later time became Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they brought their preferred game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s believed that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which was derived from the term for the bad luck toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi riverboats and all over the nation. A few think the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn created the current craps layout. He created the Don’t Pass line so players can wager on the dice to lose. Later, he invented the spots for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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