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Become Versed in Craps – Pointers and Strategies: The Past of Craps
September 25th, 2015 by Gina

Be brilliant, play brilliant, and become versed in craps the ideal way!

Dice and dice games date all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is approximately one hundred years old. Modern craps come about from the old English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the birth 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 paladins gambled on Hazard amid a siege on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was derived from the fortress’s name.

Early French settlers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when displaced by the British, the French relocated down south and settled in southern Louisiana where they a while later became known as Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they took their favorite game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which was derived from the name of the losing toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi riverboats and across the country. A great many consider the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn designed the modern craps layout. He created the Don’t Pass line so gamblers can bet on the dice to not win. At another time, he designed the spots for Place wagers and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.


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