Craps - From "Hazard" To The Online Casino Era
30 Nov 2006
The game of Craps is probably one of the most popular games in both land-based and online casino sites, but not so many people know his history, or even the fact that it's an offspring of an older game called Hazard. Some people believe that the game originated from an Arabic dice game called "Al Zar", although another popular theory is that the game was invented in 1125 AD by Sir William of Tyre. Anyway, the game has passed a long way since, until it became the game played today at online casino sites all around the world.
The game of Hazard gained enormous popularity in England in the 17th , where it played in luxurious casinos, as it was very popular among the nobility. Unlike now, when anyone can log in to an online casino site and simply play the game, in that era it was considered a privilege, and only few could afford it. The name "Craps" was given to the game by the French, describing a losing situation in the game, in which the player rolls a 2. Although the game wasn't identical, most of the rules remained pretty much the same when comparing it to the modern online casino version.
Craps became world-famous in the 20th century, specially during the second world war, when soldiers used to play it to pass the time. The game also migrated, with the soldiers, to most parts of the world, and it's known today - also thanks to the online casino revolution - practically everywhere. Although at the early 1990's the slots machines caused a decrease in the game's popularity, the Internet age and the burst of online casino sites regained him his deserved place in the pantheon of gambling games.
