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Be a Master of Craps – Tricks and Schemes: The Past of Craps
Be smart, play brilliant, and master craps the correct way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves date all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is approximately one hundred years old. Modern craps formed from the ancient English game called Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the beginnings of the game, however Hazard is said to have been invented by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, in the 12th century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s knights played Hazard amid a blockade on the fortification Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the castle’s name.
Early French colonists imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when driven away by the English, the French headed down south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they a while later became known as Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it more mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which was derived from the term for the bad luck toss of two in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi river boats and across the nation. Many think the dice maker John H. Winn as the founder of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn assembled the modern craps setup. He put in place the Do not Pass line so players could wager on the dice to not win. Later, he developed the spots for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.