Oct 162022
Be smart, play smart, and pickup craps the ideal way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes back to the Crusades, but modern craps is only about one hundred years old. Current craps developed from the old English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is said to have been invented by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It is supposed that Sir William’s paladins wagered on Hazard amid a blockade on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the citadel’s name.
Early French settlers imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 18th century, when displaced by the British, the French moved down south and discovered refuge in the south of Louisiana where they eventually became known as Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s believed that the Cajuns changed the title to craps, which was acquired from the term for the losing toss of two in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi riverboats and all over the nation. Many think the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In 1907, Winn created the modern craps setup. He created the Do not Pass line so players can bet on the dice to lose. Later, he created the spaces for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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