Pickup Craps – Hints and Strategies: The Past of Craps
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Games that use dice and the dice themselves date all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is just about a century old. Modern craps come about from the ancient English game called Hazard. No one knows for certain the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been invented by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the twelfth century. It is presumed that Sir William’s soldiers played Hazard through a blockade on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the fortification’s name.
Early French settlers imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 18th century, when banished by the English, the French relocated down south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they a while later became known as Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they brought their favorite game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which is derived from the name of the bad luck toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi river boats and all over the country. A good many acknowledge the dice maker John H. Winn as the founder of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn built the modern craps setup. He put in place the Don’t Pass line so gamblers can wager on the dice to lose. At another time, he established the spots for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.