The background of Craps dates back to a dice game known as Hazard, which dates all the way back to Bernard de Mandeville in New Orleans in 1813. Hazard is thought to be a offshoot of Azzahr, meaning ‘the die’ a game enjoyed by Arabs.
The game evolved as it spread out from the Arab territories to France and then to the UK. By the early 1700s, formal established rules for Hazard had been established. France started playing the British version of Hazard and is assumed to have been brought to the new world by early French colonizers. In the mid-18th century, when the British beat the French in Canada, the French settlers migrated to Louisiana. Dice were played on river boats, casinos and wharfs and a streamlined ‘US’ version of Craps was developed. The game headed west and is a popular game that is played all over the United States and throughout the planet.
The name ‘Craps’ is theorized to be a French enunciation of the term crabs, which means a pair of ones. There are 2 general kinds of Craps that are enjoyed-street Craps and bank Craps. Street caps, correctly called seeing as it’s bet on the streets is where a shooter establishes a point and then attempts to make that point. The betting is made either with or against the player and another person has to cover the bet for the craps game to go on.
In bank Craps, which is the normal game, played in casinos, the betting house banks the casino game. The participants bet with the house-the house covers all of the wagers of all of the players. Craps used to be a very well-liked casino game but in the past 20 years had divided itself and other games, such as poker and chemin de fer became more well-known. However, Craps is seeing a come back in popularity once again in internet betting houses and in brink and mortar betting houses.