World Gaming Magazine

12 WGM #55 2018/02 wgm8.com 13 WGM #55 2018/02 wgm8.com 封面故事 COVER STORY 记录方法 最初，百家乐结果和规律在卡片上记录，如图所示： Methods of recording Baccarat results and trends were initially recorded on paper cards, like this: 至今仍有一些玩家偏好用卡片记录。图中的红圈代表 庄赢，蓝圈代表闲赢。稍后我们会讲解这些圆圈的深层含 义。 下一个突破是“珠盘”的发明。珠盘的高度永远是6 行，但宽度会有所不同。盘上排列着四面为不同颜色的方 块：白色是空白，红色代表庄家，蓝色代表闲家，绿色代 表和局。如下图所示： To this day some players prefer to use paper and pen. The red circles on the card represent banker wins and the blue circles represent player wins. We’ll delve into the deeper meaning of these circles later. The next breakthrough was the invention of a device known in Chinese as 珠盘 (pronounced zhu pan in Mandarin and zu pun in Cantonese). This name literally means “bead plate” but “cube tray” is probably a better name for it in English. This tray is always six rows in height, but can vary in width. It contains cubes with sides of four different colors: white for blank, red for banker, blue for player and green for tie. Here’s a picture: 珠盘在英文中有很多名字，比如cube road（方块 路）、dice road（骰子路）、marker road（标记路）、 bead plate road （珠盘路），甚至baby pig road（这 是对珠盘另一个中文名“猪仔路”的直译）。稍后我们会 解释如何用珠盘作记录以及“路”的含义。 如今大多数玩家已经摒弃了卡片和珠盘，因为现在主 要娱乐场的所有百家乐赌桌都安装了如左图这样的电子显 示屏。 这些电子显示屏会记录卡片和珠盘上记录的所有信 息，通常还会更多。它们和自动读牌的牌靴直接相连，能 瞬间准确无误地完成这些记录。娱乐场员工及玩家都不用 费力，全套信息在任何时间都垂手可得。 既然现在电子显示屏是记录百家乐结果的最常见方 式，我们在本文中也使用电子显示屏的画面。 The bead plate has many alternative names in English, such as “cube road”, “dice road”, “marker road”, “bead plate road” and even “baby pig road” (a direct translation of another Chinese name for it). Later we’ll explain how the bead plate is used and the significance of the word “road.” These days, most players have discarded paper cards and the bead plate, because now all baccarat tables in major casinos have electronic displays attached to them, like the one pictured on the left. The beauty of these electronic displays is they show all the information that was recorded on paper and the bead plate and often much more. They do this instantaneously and without error because they are directly connected to automatic card reading shoes. There is no effort on the part of the casino staff or the players and the full suite of trend information is at the players’ fingertips at any time. In this article, we use pictures from an electronic display, since it’s now the most common way of keeping track of baccarat results and trends.