Pickup Craps – Hints and Strategies: The Past of Craps

May 8th, 2024 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 approximately one hundred years old. Modern craps come about from the old Anglo game called Hazard. No one absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is believed to have been created by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It is supposed that Sir William’s knights wagered on Hazard through a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was acquired from the fortification’s name.

Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 18th century, when banished by the English, the French moved down south and located safety in the south of Louisiana where they eventually became known as Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they took their favorite game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s said that the Cajuns adjusted the title to craps, which was derived from the name of the bad luck throw of two in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi scows and all over the country. A good many acknowledge the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In 1907, Winn created the current craps layout. He created the Do not Pass line so players could bet on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he designed the boxes for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.

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