Craps is among those games that have been popular for centuries. Craps is a dice game played against other players or a bank.

It is rather difficult to follow where it comes from. The variation of craps that we play today dates back to the Middle Ages. Those times the game was known as hazard and it was played mainly in Britain and France. The popularity of the game was growing and it spread around the continent and sooner craps became well-known in Asia Minor.

In the 17th century, craps came to the American continent and became popular in Canada, in French colonies. Then appeared a new version of the game, known as American craps that the rich Louisiana landowner, a gambler and politician, Bernard Xavier Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville brought to New Orleans. According to one of the versions, the game was known as Krebs, but it is partly changed to the modern “Craps”.

Today this oldest game is very popular with online casinos players. The game does not require much equipment, so craps are often played in informal settings. It also increases the game popularity.

Playing online craps, players can bet against the bank (aka bank craps) or against each other (street craps) on the result of a single roll, or of a series of 2 dice rolls.

Street Craps is supposed to be the informal variant of craps. It is played any time and at any place. In street craps you can’t find any bank or house to cover bets. Players stake against one another, they cover or fade one another’s stakes for the game. There are places where the local or state laws ban gambling on money, in this case if players use money in place of chips street craps is considered illegal.

There are a good number of types of street craps.

Bank craps is more dainty variation of the game that is played in the land-based and online casinos. A special dice is used in the game as well as a special table covered with a special top for craps. Here the particular casino determines the size of bets, but it is usually the game aimed for high rollers. Bank craps is played against the casino. One or more players can play it at the same time. All players put their bets at the table and just the casino that sets the odds on the payoff.