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Pickup Craps – Hints and Plans: The Background of Craps
Be smart, play clever, and pickup craps the ideal way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes back to the Crusades, but modern craps is just about a century old. Modern craps formed from the ancient English game called Hazard. No one knows for sure the beginnings of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been created by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the twelfth century. It is supposed that Sir William’s horsemen enjoyed Hazard during a blockade on the fortification Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the fortress’s name.
Early French colonizers brought the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 18th century, when expelled by the British, the French relocated down south and settled in southern Louisiana where they at a later time became Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it fair mathematically. It is believed that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which is acquired from the name of the non-winning throw of 2 in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi scows and across the country. Many consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the creator of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn developed the modern craps layout. He added the Don’t Pass line so players could wager on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he created the boxes for Place wagers and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.