Pickup Craps – Hints and Schemes: The Past of Craps
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Games that use dice and the dice themselves date back to the Crusades, but current craps is approximately a century old. Modern craps formed from the ancient English game referred to as Hazard. No one absolutely knows the birth of the game, although Hazard is believed to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It is believed that Sir William’s horsemen played Hazard amid a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the fortress’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when driven away by the British, the French relocated south and found refuge in southern Louisiana where they a while later became Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they brought their best-loved game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it more mathematically fair. It’s believed that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which was derived from the name of the bad luck toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi scows and all over the nation. Most think the dice builder John H. Winn as the founder of current craps. In 1907, Winn designed the current craps setup. He added the Do not Pass line so gamblers can wager on the dice to lose. At another time, he established the spots for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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