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December
Written by Frederick.
Posted in: Craps
Be clever, play clever, and master craps the correct way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes back to the Crusades, but current craps is just about a century old. Current craps developed from the 12th Century Anglo game called Hazard. No one knows for certain the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is believed to have been made up by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It is presumed that Sir William’s knights enjoyed Hazard through a siege on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the citadel’s name.
Early French settlers brought the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when exiled by the English, the French moved down south and settled in southern Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they brought their favorite game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s said that the Cajuns changed the title to craps, which is acquired from the name of the non-winning toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi barges and throughout the country. A few consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn designed the current craps setup. He created the Don’t Pass line so players can wager on the dice to not win. At another time, he developed the boxes for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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