Learn to Play Craps – Hints and Tactics: The Background of Craps
Posted in Craps on 07/19/2022 09:25 pm by Philip
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Dice and dice games goes back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is only about one hundred years old. Current craps evolved from the old English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the origin of the game, but Hazard is said to have been created by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It is presumed that Sir William’s knights gambled on Hazard amid a siege on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the fortification’s name.
Early French colonists imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 18th century, when banished by the English, the French headed south and settled in southern Louisiana where they a while later became known as Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they took their favorite game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it mathematically fair. It’s believed that the Cajuns altered the title to craps, which is acquired from the term for the bad luck toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi riverboats and across the country. A great many acknowledge the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In 1907, Winn designed the current craps layout. He added the Do not Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to lose. Afterwords, he established the spots for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.