Learn to Play Craps – Pointers and Plans: The Background of Craps


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Be smart, play cunning, and learn how to play craps the correct way!

Games that use dice and the dice themselves date back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is only about a century old. Modern craps evolved from the 12th Century Anglo game referred to as Hazard. No one absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, however Hazard is said to have been discovered by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the 12th century. It is theorized that Sir William’s horsemen wagered on Hazard during a blockade on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the fortress’s name.

Early French colonists brought the game Hazard to Canada. In the 18th century, when driven away by the British, the French headed south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s said that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which is gotten from the name of the losing toss of two 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 think the dice builder John H. Winn as the founder of current craps. In 1907, Winn built the modern craps layout. He created the Do not Pass line so players could bet on the dice to lose. Afterwords, he established the spots for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.

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