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Master Craps – Hints and Strategies: The History of Craps
Be cunning, play clever, and pickup craps the ideal way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves date all the way back to the Crusades, but current craps is just about a century old. Modern craps formed from the 12th Century English game called Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the birth of the game, although Hazard is believed to have been invented by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It is believed that Sir William’s paladins bet on Hazard amid a blockade on the fortification Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the citadel’s name.
Early French colonists imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when displaced by the English, the French headed south and discovered safety in the south of Louisiana where they a while later became Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they took their favorite game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it more mathematically fair. It’s said that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which is derived from the term for the non-winning toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi riverboats and all over the country. Many consider the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of current craps. In 1907, Winn built the modern craps setup. He appended the Do not Pass line so gamblers can wager on the dice to lose. At another time, he designed the spaces for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.