Pickup Craps – Pointers and Strategies: The Past of Craps
Be cunning, play cunning, and pickup craps the right way!
Dice and dice games goes all the way back to the Crusades, but current craps is approximately a century old. Current craps evolved from the 12th Century English game called Hazard. No one absolutely knows the birth of the game, although Hazard is believed to have been created by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the 12th century. It’s believed that Sir William’s soldiers played Hazard during a blockade on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was acquired from the fortification’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 18th century, when displaced by the English, the French headed down south and located safety in the south of Louisiana where they eventually became known as Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they brought their preferred game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s believed that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which was derived from the term for the bad luck toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi river boats and throughout the nation. A good many acknowledge the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn assembled the current craps setup. He created the Do not Pass line so gamblers can wager on the dice to not win. At another time, he created the boxes for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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