Learn to Play Craps – Hints and Strategies: The History of Craps
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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes all the way back to the Crusades, but current craps is only about a century old. Current craps developed from the old English game called Hazard. No one knows for sure the beginnings of the game, although Hazard is believed to have been invented by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the 12th century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s paladins bet on Hazard through a siege on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was derived from the fortress’s name.
Early French colonists imported the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 1700s, when displaced by the British, the French headed down south and found refuge in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they brought their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it fair mathematically. It is believed that the Cajuns altered the title to craps, which was derived from the name of the losing toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi barges and throughout the nation. A few think the dice maker John H. Winn as the founder of modern craps. In 1907, Winn designed the modern craps setup. He added the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to not win. At another time, he developed the spaces for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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