For its sheer excitement, and reliance on chance, Craps has been the professional gamblers choice for hundreds, even thousands of years. Its fun, it’s exciting and you can win at craps if you follow the simple tips below. Gambling with dice (throwing of lots) is as old as the Bible and even older perhaps with references of dice play for money from India, China, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece. There are similar references from pre-Colombian...

Craps is an old English game called Hazard. The origin of this game is unknown but this game became popular with the French people. This game was bought to the States by a French man called Bernard Xavier Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville. From then on it has become a cult in many places around the world. Craps being one of the several popular gambling games absorbs most of your time as well as money. And if your good with rolling dice the...

Since the beginning of time there have been people who tested fate and took chances. Who would have thought this would evolve into something much more…rewarding? Craps has been said to have beginnings in the Middle East or Arabia. This is common thought and well accepted. But the idea that most folks have about craps is that it is a game that covers more cultures and references than any other. We have all seen the images of swanky casinos...

Did you know that your great-grandfathers played craps on battleships during World War II in the Pacific? Craps is one of those games that is called a “man’s game” for tough people. The reason for this is because in the turbulent 40s through 60s old guys in cigar-filled rooms played craps to the point where it became hard to understand for outsiders, was seen as not for the refined, and took on sort of a cult status for...

Many historians believe that people in medieval times played a game very similar to our modern day craps. The game of craps actually goes back even farther, to the Holy Roman Empire, when soldiers would entertain themselves by whittling or carving down pig knuckles into cube shapes which they would then roll, using their inverted shields as a makeshift craps table. From this practice has come the term “to roll the bones”. There...

Believe it or not while you may hear all of the hollering and yelling at the craps table, there are certain unwritten rules of etiquette that are expected to be followed. The first rule is to be courteous to dealers, casino staff and other players. Casinos do their best to promote the image of playing craps as being exciting and fun, but sometimes a player who has had too much to drink may take the party atmosphere too seriously and be just...