Be a Master of Craps – Tricks and Tactics: The Background of Craps
Posted in Craps on 02/28/2025 06:25 am by PhilipBe clever, play brilliant, and become versed in craps the ideal way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves date back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is just about 100 years old. Modern craps developed from the ancient Anglo game called Hazard. No one absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, however Hazard is said to have been discovered by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the 12th century. It is theorized that Sir William’s soldiers enjoyed Hazard through a blockade on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was derived from the fortification’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 18th century, when expelled by the British, the French headed south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they eventually became Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they brought their preferred game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns broke down 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 bad luck throw of 2 in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi barges and across the country. Most consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn developed the modern craps layout. He created the Do not Pass line so players could bet on the dice to not win. At another time, he designed the spaces for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.