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The background of Craps dates all the way back to a dice game known as Hazard, which dates back to Bernard de Mandeville in New Orleans in Early 1800’s. Hazard is believed to be a by-product of Azzahr, meaning ‘the die’ a game enjoyed by Arabs.

The game developed as it spread out from the Arab territories to France and then to England. By the early eighteenth century, formal established rules for Hazard had been established. France adopted the British 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 beat the French in British North America, the French settlers migrated to Louisiana. Dice were enjoyed on river boats, casinos and wharfs and a simplified ‘American’ variation of Craps was created. The game moved west and is a well-known game that is played all over the U.S. and around the world.

The name ‘Craps’ is theorized to be a French enunciation of the phrase crabs, which means a pair of ones. There are 2 general kinds of Craps that are enjoyed-street Craps and bank Craps. Street caps, aptly called seeing as it is bet on the streets is where a player sets a point and then attempts to roll that point. The wagering is made either with or opposed to the player and another player has to cover the wager for the game of craps to go ahead.

In bank Craps, which is the common game, played in betting houses, the betting house backs the casino game. The participants wager with the casino-the house covers all of the wagers of all of the gamblers. Craps once was a very well-loved game but in the last 20 years had divided itself and other games, like poker and blackjack became more well-liked. However, Craps is observing a come back in recognition once again in web betting houses and in land based betting houses.