One of the games that have been known through centuries is online craps. Craps is the game that played with a dice against a bank or other players.

We don’t know exactly where the game comes from. The type of craps that we play at the moment has been known since the Middle Ages. Then the game was named hazard and it was extremely popular in France and Britain. Then the game popularity was spreading around the whole continent and craps became also known in Asia Minor.

In the 17th century, craps came to Americas and it was played in French Canadian colonies. That time a new version of the game appeared. It was known as American craps and this craps was brought by the rich Louisiana landowner, a politician and player, Bernard Xavier Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville to New Orleans, the USA. According to one of the theories, the game was called Krebs, that game partly changed gave the name to the modern “Craps”.

Nowadays this ancient game enjoys wide popularity with online gamblers. To play the game you do not need any special equipment, that’s why craps are frequently played in informal places. This thing augments the game popularity as well.

While playing craps, participants can wager against the bank (this variation is known as bank craps) or against other participants (street craps) on a single roll outcome, or a series of two dice rolls.

Street Craps is an informal type of craps. This game can be played everywhere and any time. Street craps does not involve any bank or casino to cover bets. Participants make bets against each other. But there are several places in which the local or federal laws forbid playing on money. In such a case when players play on money street craps is illegal.

In the world there are lots of variations of street craps.

Bank craps is more refined type of the game. It is played in the land and online casinos. Players play with a special dice and a special table that has a special top for craps. Every casino determines the bet size, but usually bank craps is the game for high rollers. One or more gamblers can play it simultaneous. The game is played only against the house. The players make their bets on the table. The casino does set the odds on the game payout.