Be a Master of Craps – Hints and Strategies: The Past of Craps
Be smart, play brilliant, and become versed in craps the proper way!
Dice and dice games date back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is only about a century old. Current craps formed from the old English game called Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been discovered by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It is supposed that Sir William’s soldiers gambled on Hazard amid a siege on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was derived from the castle’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when expelled by the British, the French headed down south and found sanctuary in southern Louisiana where they eventually became Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns changed the title to craps, which is gotten from the name of the non-winning toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi river boats and across the nation. A good many think the dice builder John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In 1907, Winn developed the modern craps layout. He put in place the Do not Pass line so players could bet on the dice to not win. At another time, he created the spaces for Place wagers and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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