Be a Master of Craps – Pointers and Strategies: The Past of Craps

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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is approximately a century old. Modern craps evolved from the 12th Century Anglo game called Hazard. No one knows for certain the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is said to have been invented by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It’s believed that Sir William’s soldiers played Hazard during a siege on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was derived from the castle’s name.

Early French settlers brought the game Hazard to Canada. In the 18th century, when displaced by the British, the French headed south and discovered safety in southern Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they took their best-loved game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s believed that the Cajuns altered the name to craps, which was gotten from the name of the losing toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi riverboats and across the country. A good many acknowledge the dice maker John H. Winn as the founder of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn designed the modern craps layout. He put in place the Do not Pass line so players can wager on the dice to lose. Later, he established the spots for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.