Pickup Craps – Hints and Techniques: The Background of Craps

August 9th, 2022 by Kingston Leave a reply »
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Be cunning, play clever, and learn how to play craps the ideal way!

Games that use dice and the dice themselves date back to the Crusades, but modern craps is just about a century old. Modern craps formed from the old English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the beginnings of the game, although Hazard is said to have been invented by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the 12th century. It is supposed that Sir William’s soldiers played Hazard through a siege on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was acquired from the fortress’s name.

Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 1700s, when displaced by the British, the French moved south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they eventually became Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it mathematically fair. It’s believed that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which was derived from the term for the bad luck toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi riverboats and all over the nation. A great many consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In 1907, Winn built the current craps layout. He appended the Don’t Pass line so players can bet on the dice to not win. At another time, he designed the boxes for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.

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