Sep 202021
Be brilliant, play cunning, and become versed in craps the right way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes back to the Crusades, but modern craps is approximately one hundred years old. Current craps developed from the 12th Century Anglo game referred to as Hazard. No one knows for sure the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is said to have been made up by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the 12th century. It is theorized that Sir William’s knights gambled on Hazard through a siege on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the citadel’s name.
Early French settlers brought the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when exiled by the English, the French moved south and located refuge in the south of Louisiana where they eventually became Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they brought their best-loved game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it mathematically fair. It’s said that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which is acquired from the name of the bad luck toss of two in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi riverboats and throughout the nation. A great many think the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In 1907, Winn assembled the modern craps setup. He created the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could bet on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he developed the spaces for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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