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Become Versed in Craps – Hints and Schemes: The Past of Craps
Be cunning, play brilliant, and become versed in craps the ideal way!
Dice and dice games date all the way back to the Crusades, but modern craps is only about one hundred years old. Current craps developed from the old Anglo game referred to as Hazard. No one knows for sure the birth of the game, although Hazard is said to have been invented by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, in the 12th century. It is theorized that Sir William’s horsemen enjoyed Hazard amid a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the castle’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when banished by the British, the French headed south and settled in southern Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they took their favorite game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it mathematically fair. It’s believed that the Cajuns altered the name to craps, which is gotten from the name of the non-winning toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi scows and across the nation. Many think the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn developed the modern craps layout. He put in place the Do not Pass line so players can wager on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he established the boxes for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.