Pickup Craps – Hints and Plans: The Past of Craps

October 6th, 2015 by Kingston Leave a reply »
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Games that use dice and the dice themselves date all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is approximately a century old. Current craps formed from the ancient English game referred to as Hazard. No one absolutely knows the birth of the game, but Hazard is said to have been invented by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the 12th century. It is supposed that Sir William’s paladins wagered on Hazard during a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the citadel’s name.

Early French colonizers brought the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 18th century, when displaced by the English, the French headed south and settled in southern Louisiana where they a while later became known as Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it mathematically fair. It’s said that the Cajuns altered the title to craps, which was gotten from the name of the non-winning toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi riverboats and throughout the country. A good many consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In 1907, Winn designed the current craps setup. He created the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to not win. Later, he invented the boxes for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.

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