Pickup Craps – Pointers and Techniques: The History of Craps
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Dice and dice games date back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is only about a century old. Modern craps developed from the old Anglo game referred to as Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the birth of the game, however Hazard is believed to have been created by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the 12th century. It’s theorized that Sir William’s soldiers gambled on Hazard through a siege on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was derived from the fortification’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when exiled by the British, the French headed south and located sanctuary in southern Louisiana where they at a later time became known as Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they brought their preferred game, Hazard, along. 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 term for the non-winning toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi riverboats and throughout the nation. A few acknowledge the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn built the current craps setup. He appended the Do not Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to lose. Later, he invented the spaces for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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