Nov 162009
Be clever, play clever, and master craps the right way!
Dice and dice games date all the way back to the Crusades, but current craps is approximately 100 years old. Current craps developed from the old Anglo game called Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been created by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the 12th century. It is believed that Sir William’s horsemen gambled on Hazard during a blockade on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the castle’s name.
Early French settlers brought the game Hazard to Canada. In the 18th century, when exiled by the British, the French relocated down south and discovered sanctuary in the south of Louisiana where they at a later time became Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they brought their best-loved game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it fair mathematically. It is believed that the Cajuns adjusted the title to craps, which was acquired from the term for the losing toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi riverboats and throughout the country. Most think the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn built the modern craps layout. He appended the Don’t Pass line so players can wager on the dice to lose. Afterwords, he created the spots for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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