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Pickup Craps – Hints and Plans: The Background of Craps
Be cunning, play smart, and become versed in craps the ideal way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves date all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is just about a century old. Current craps come about from the ancient Anglo game referred to as Hazard. No one absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is said to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It is theorized that Sir William’s paladins bet on Hazard amid a blockade on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the castle’s name.
Early French colonizers brought the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when expelled by the British, the French headed south and discovered sanctuary in the south of Louisiana where they eventually became known as Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it more mathematically fair. It’s believed that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which is gotten from the term for the losing throw of two in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi riverboats and throughout the country. Most consider the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn created the current craps setup. He created the Don’t Pass line so players can bet on the dice to not win. Later, he invented the spots for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.