Be a Master of Craps – Hints and Techniques: The Past of Craps
Be cunning, play smart, and pickup craps the correct way!
Dice and dice games date all the way back to the Crusades, but modern craps is just about one hundred years old. Modern craps formed from the ancient Anglo game called Hazard. No one knows for certain the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been created by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the twelfth century. It is believed that Sir William’s knights enjoyed Hazard through a blockade on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was derived from the citadel’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 18th century, when driven away by the English, the French relocated south and located safety in southern Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they brought their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it fair mathematically. It is said that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which is derived from the term for the non-winning toss of two in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi barges and all over the nation. A good many think the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In 1907, Winn created the current craps layout. He added the Do not Pass line so players could wager on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he established the boxes for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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