Master Craps – Hints and Strategies: The Past of Craps
Posted in Craps on 04/17/2019 12:25 am by Philip
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Dice and dice games date all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is approximately a century old. Current craps come about from the old English game called Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the beginnings of the game, although Hazard is said to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It is supposed that Sir William’s paladins bet on Hazard amid a siege on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was acquired from the fortification’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 18th century, when exiled by the British, the French moved south and located safety in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they took their favored 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, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi barges and throughout the nation. A few acknowledge the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In 1907, Winn designed the current craps layout. He created the Don’t Pass line so players could wager on the dice to lose. At another time, he developed the boxes for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.