Master Craps – Tips and Techniques: The Past of Craps
Posted in Craps on 08/28/2018 10:33 pm by PhilipBe cunning, play smart, and pickup craps the ideal way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves date back to the Crusades, but modern craps is just about 100 years old. Current craps formed from the old English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the birth of the game, however Hazard is said to have been made up by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It’s theorized that Sir William’s paladins gambled on Hazard amid a siege on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was acquired from the citadel’s name.
Early French colonists brought the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 18th century, when banished by the British, the French relocated south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they at a later time became known as Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they took their best-loved game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it more mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns adjusted the title to craps, which was acquired from the name of the non-winning throw of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi riverboats and across the country. Many think the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In 1907, Winn designed the modern craps setup. He appended the Do not Pass line so gamblers can wager on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he invented the spaces for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.