Be a Master of Craps – Pointers and Strategies: The Background of Craps

March 16th, 2020 by Kingston Leave a reply »

Be brilliant, play brilliant, and become versed in craps the proper way!

Games that use dice and the dice themselves date back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is approximately a century old. Current craps come about from the old English game called Hazard. No one knows for sure the origin of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been created by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It is supposed that Sir William’s knights enjoyed Hazard amid a blockade on the fortification Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was acquired from the citadel’s name.

Early French colonists brought the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when driven away by the English, the French moved south and discovered safety in the south of Louisiana where they at a later time became known as Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they took their favorite game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it more mathematically fair. It’s said that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which was derived from the term for the non-winning throw of 2 in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi river boats and across the nation. A great many consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In 1907, Winn built the modern craps layout. He added the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to not win. Later, he developed the spots for Place wagers and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.

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