The background of Craps dates back to a dice game referred to as Hazard, which dates back to Bernard de Mandeville in New Orleans in Early 1800’s. Hazard is thought to be a byproduct of Azzahr, meaning ‘the die’ a game played by Arabs.
The game developed as it traveled from the Arab territories to France and then England. By the early 18th century, formal established rules for Hazard had been established. France started playing the English version of Hazard and is believed to have been imported to the us by early French colonizers. In the mid-Eighteenth century, when the English defeated the French in Canada, the French colonists moved to Louisiana. Dice were enjoyed on river boats, clubs and wharfs and a streamlined ‘US’ variation of Craps was developed. The game headed west and is a favored game that is competed in all over the United States and throughout the planet.
The name ‘Craps’ is theorized to be a French enunciation of the term crabs, which refers to two ones. There are two basic varieties of Craps that are bet on-street Craps and bank Craps. Street caps, aptly named because it is bet on the streets is where a shooter establishes a point and then attempts to make that point. The betting is made either with or against the hurler and another player must cover the wager in order for the game of craps to go on.
In casino Craps, which is the accepted game, competed in in betting houses, the casino funds the casino game. The participants gamble with the house-the casino covers all of the wagers of all of the gamblers. Craps used to be a very well-loved game but in the past twenty years had split itself and different games, like poker and black jack became even more well-loved. However, Craps is observing a come back in fame once again in net casinos and in brink and mortar casinos.
