Master Craps – Tips and Strategies: The Past of Craps

January 9th, 2023 by Kingston Leave a reply »

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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes all the way back to the Crusades, but current craps is only about a century old. Modern craps come about from the ancient Anglo game referred to as Hazard. Nobody knows for certain the birth of the game, however Hazard is believed to have been created by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the 12th century. It is believed that Sir William’s knights played Hazard amid a blockade on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the fortification’s name.

Early French colonists brought the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 1700s, when banished by the English, the French headed south and settled in southern Louisiana where they at a later time became known as Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they brought their favorite game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s said that the Cajuns altered the name to craps, which was gotten from the term for the non-winning toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi riverboats and all over the nation. A great many consider the dice maker John H. Winn as the founder of modern craps. In 1907, Winn assembled the current craps layout. He added the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to lose. At another time, he developed the boxes for Place wagers and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.

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