Be a Master of Craps – Hints and Tactics: The Background of Craps
Be clever, play clever, and pickup craps the proper way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves date back to the Crusades, but modern craps is approximately a century old. Modern craps formed from the old Anglo game called Hazard. Nobody knows for certain the origin of the game, however Hazard is said to have been created by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the 12th century. It’s believed that Sir William’s paladins gambled on Hazard during a blockade on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the fortress’s name.
Early French settlers brought the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 18th century, when driven away by the English, the French moved down south and discovered refuge in southern Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they brought their preferred game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it fair mathematically. It is said that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which is derived from the term for the losing toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi river boats and throughout the nation. A good many think the dice builder John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In 1907, Winn created the modern craps setup. He added the Do not Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he invented the boxes for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.