Pickup Craps – Tips and Strategies: The Past of Craps
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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes all the way back to the Crusades, but current craps is approximately a century old. Modern craps formed from the ancient English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the origin of the game, although Hazard is said to have been invented by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the 12th century. It is supposed that Sir William’s horsemen gambled on Hazard amid a blockade on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was derived from the fortification’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 1700s, when banished by the British, the French moved south and settled in southern Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they brought their preferred game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it mathematically fair. It’s believed that the Cajuns changed the title to craps, which is derived from the name of the non-winning throw of two in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi barges and all over the country. Many consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn created the current craps setup. He put in place the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to lose. Later, he established the boxes for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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