Learn to Play Craps – Tricks and Strategies: The Past of Craps
Be smart, play brilliant, and master craps the right way!
Dice and dice games goes all the way back to the Crusades, but current craps is approximately a century old. Modern craps come about 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 created by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s horsemen gambled on Hazard through a blockade on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was derived from the citadel’s name.
Early French colonists brought the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 18th century, when exiled by the British, the French relocated south and located sanctuary in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they took their preferred 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 is gotten from the name of the losing throw of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi riverboats and throughout the nation. A good many consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn assembled the modern craps setup. He created the Do not Pass line so gamblers could bet on the dice to lose. At another time, he developed the spots for Place wagers and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
