Pickup Craps – Hints and Schemes: The Past of Craps
Posted in Craps on 09/26/2020 07:25 pm by Philip
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Dice and dice games date back to the Crusades, but modern craps is only about a century old. Modern craps come about from the 12th Century Anglo game referred to as Hazard. Nobody knows for certain the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is said to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the 12th century. It’s presumed that Sir William’s knights bet on Hazard during a blockade on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was derived from the fortification’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when expelled by the British, the French headed south and settled in southern Louisiana where they eventually became Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they brought their preferred game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns altered the title to craps, which is gotten from the name of the bad luck throw of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi scows and across the nation. A good many consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn assembled the current craps layout. He appended the Don’t Pass line so gamblers can bet on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he designed the spots for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.