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Be a Master of Craps – Tricks and Schemes: The Past of Craps
Be cunning, play cunning, and become versed in craps the ideal way!
Dice and dice games date back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is approximately a century old. Modern craps come about from the ancient Anglo game called Hazard. No one knows for sure the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is said to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the 12th century. It’s believed that Sir William’s horsemen wagered on Hazard during a blockade on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the fortress’s name.
Early French colonists imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when displaced by the English, the French relocated down south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they a while later became known as Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they took their best-loved game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns altered the name to craps, which was gotten from the name of the losing throw of two in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi barges and across the nation. A good many consider the dice maker John H. Winn as the founder of current craps. In 1907, Winn developed the current craps setup. He appended the Do not Pass line so players could bet on the dice to not win. Later, he developed the boxes for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.