Pickup Craps – Tips and Plans: The Past of Craps
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Dice and dice games date back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is approximately a century old. Current craps formed from the old Anglo game referred to as Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is said to have been made up by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the 12th century. It is supposed that Sir William’s paladins bet on Hazard amid a siege on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was derived from the castle’s name.
Early French settlers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 18th century, when displaced by the English, the French relocated south and settled in southern Louisiana where they at a later time became Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they brought their preferred game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it fair mathematically. It is said that the Cajuns altered the title to craps, which is acquired from the term for the bad luck toss of two in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi river boats and across the country. A good many acknowledge the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn created the current craps layout. He created the Don’t Pass line so gamblers can wager on the dice to lose. Afterwords, he created the spots for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.