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Master Craps – Pointers and Schemes: The Past of Craps
Be clever, play smart, and pickup craps the correct way!
Dice and dice games goes all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is just about one hundred years old. Current craps come about from the ancient Anglo game referred to as Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, however Hazard is believed to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, in the 12th century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s paladins wagered on Hazard through a siege on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was derived from the fortress’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when displaced by the British, the French moved down south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they brought their best-loved game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it more mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns altered the name to craps, which is acquired from the term for the bad luck toss of two in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi scows and throughout the country. Many consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the founder of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn built the modern craps layout. He created the Don’t Pass line so gamblers can wager on the dice to lose. Later, he developed the spaces for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.