Master Craps – Hints and Strategies: The History of Craps
by Ali on Tuesday, November 29th, 2016
Be clever, play smart, and master craps the correct way!
Dice and dice games goes back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is only about a century old. Current craps formed from the old Anglo game called Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is said to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, in the 12th century. It’s theorized that Sir William’s knights played Hazard through a siege on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was derived from the castle’s name.
Early French colonists imported the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 18th century, when exiled by the British, the French relocated down south and settled in southern Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it more mathematically fair. It’s believed that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which is acquired from the term for the non-winning toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi riverboats and throughout the nation. A good many think the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn developed the current craps setup. He put in place the Do not Pass line so gamblers could bet on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he developed the spaces for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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