Learn to Play Craps – Tricks and Schemes: The Background of Craps

August 21st, 2019 by Kingston Leave a reply »
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Dice and dice games goes all the way back to the Crusades, but modern craps is approximately a century old. Modern craps come about from the 12th Century English game called Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, however Hazard is believed to have been discovered by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s soldiers bet on Hazard through a siege on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was acquired from the castle’s name.

Early French colonizers brought the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 18th century, when banished by the British, the French relocated south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they at a later time became known as Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they brought their best-loved game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it more mathematically fair. It’s believed that the Cajuns changed the title to craps, which is acquired from the name of the bad luck toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi river boats and all over the country. A good many consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the founder of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn designed the current craps setup. He created the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could bet on the dice to lose. At another time, he designed the boxes for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.

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