Pickup Craps – Pointers and Techniques: The History of Craps
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Dice and dice games goes back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is just about a century old. Modern craps developed from the 12th Century English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is believed to have been discovered by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s soldiers played Hazard amid a blockade on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was derived from the fortification’s name.
Early French settlers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when exiled by the British, the French headed south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they eventually became Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they brought their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it fair mathematically. It is said that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which was acquired from the term for the bad luck toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi barges and all over the country. A few think the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In 1907, Winn developed the current craps setup. He appended the Do not Pass line so gamblers can wager on the dice to not win. At another time, he invented the boxes for Place wagers and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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