Craps Strategies

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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes all the way back to the Crusades, but current craps is approximately a century old. Modern craps evolved from the 12th Century English game called Hazard. No one absolutely knows the birth of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been discovered by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, in the 12th century. It’s believed that Sir William’s soldiers played Hazard through a siege on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the fortress’s name.

Early French settlers brought the game Hazard to Canada. In the 18th century, when exiled by the English, the French relocated down south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they took their best-loved game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it more mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns changed the title to craps, which was acquired from the name of the losing toss of two in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi river boats and across the nation. A great many acknowledge the dice maker John H. Winn as the founder of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn designed the modern craps layout. He appended the Do not Pass line so gamblers can wager on the dice to not win. At another time, he established the spots for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.