15
May
Written by Yair.
Posted in: Craps
Be cunning, play smart, and master craps the correct way!
Dice and dice games date all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is just about one hundred years old. Current craps evolved from the 12th Century Anglo game referred to as Hazard. No one absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been discovered by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It is theorized that Sir William’s horsemen played Hazard amid a siege on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was acquired from the fortress’s name.
Early French colonists imported the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 1700s, when driven away by the English, the French relocated down south and discovered refuge in southern Louisiana where they a while later became Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they brought their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it fair mathematically. It is said that the Cajuns altered the name to craps, which was acquired from the name of the losing throw of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi barges and all over the country. A great many acknowledge the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In 1907, Winn assembled the modern craps layout. He added the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to lose. At another time, he established the spaces for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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