Be a Master of Craps – Pointers and Tactics: The History of Craps
Posted in Craps on 03/12/2020 11:25 am by Philip
Be cunning, play cunning, and master craps the right way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves date all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is approximately one hundred years old. Current craps formed from the old English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody knows for certain the beginnings of the game, however Hazard is said to have been invented by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It is presumed that Sir William’s paladins wagered on Hazard during a siege on the fortification Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the fortress’s name.
Early French colonists imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when expelled by the British, the French relocated south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they took their best-loved game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it fair mathematically. It is believed that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which was gotten from the name of the non-winning toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi scows and throughout the country. Most 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 can bet on the dice to lose. Afterwords, he created the spaces for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.