The background of Craps dates all the way back to a dice game known as Hazard, which dates back to Bernard de Mandeville in New Orleans in 1813. Hazard is thought to be a descendant of Azzahr, which means ‘the die’ a game played by Arabs.
The game developed as it spread out from the Arab territories to France and then England. By the early eighteenth century, formal rules for Hazard had been developed. France started playing the British version of Hazard and is assumed to have been imported to the us by early French colonizers. In the mid-1700s, when the English beat the French in Canada, the French colonizers moved to Louisiana. Dice were played on river boats, clubs and wharfs and a streamlined ‘US’ variation of Craps was developed. The game headed west and is a favored game that is played all over the U.S. and throughout the world.
The name ‘Craps’ is theorized to be a French enunciation of the term crabs, which refers to a pair of ones. There are 2 basic forms of Craps that are gambled on-street Craps and bank Craps. Street caps, aptly named seeing as it is played on the streets is where a tosser establishes a point and then attempts to roll that point. The wagering is made either for or against the player and another player has to cover the wager in order for the craps game to carry on.
In bank Craps, which is the common game, gambled on in betting houses, the betting house banks the game. The participants gamble against the house-the house covers all of the wagers of all of the players. Craps was a quite well-loved game but in the past 20 years had split itself and different games, like poker and twenty-one became more well-known. However, Craps is observing a come back in popularity once again in net betting houses and in real betting houses.
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