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The history of Craps dates all the way back to a dice game known as Hazard, which goes back to Bernard de Mandeville in New Orleans in Early 1800’s. Hazard is thought to be a offshoot of Azzahr, which means ‘the die’ a game enjoyed by Arabs.

The game developed as it traveled from the Arab countries to Europe and then England. By the early eighteenth century, cultivated game rules for Hazard had been established. France started playing the British version of Hazard and is assumed to have been imported to the us by early French settlers. In the mid-Eighteenth century, when the British beat the French in Canada, the French colonizers migrated to Louisiana. Dice were enjoyed on river boats, casinos and wharfs and a simplified ‘US’ style of Craps was created. The game headed west and is a favoured game that is participated in all over the U.S. and around the world.

The name ‘Craps’ is considered to be a French expression of the word crabs, which alludes to two ‘1s’. There are 2 basic types of Craps that are played-street Craps and bank Craps. Street caps, aptly named seeing as it is played on the streets is where a player establishes a point and then attempts to make that point. The betting is made either for or against the player and someone must cover the bet in order for the game of craps to go ahead.

In casino Craps, which is the familiar game, played in casinos, the betting house banks the casino game. The players bet against the house-the house covers all of the bets of all of the players. Craps used to be a quite well-loved game but in the last twenty years had divided itself and other games, such as poker and twenty-one became more well-known. However, Craps is experiencing a come back in popularity once again in web betting houses and in brink and mortar casinos.