World Gaming Magazine

16 WGM #55 2018/02 wgm8.com 17 WGM #55 2018/02 wgm8.com 封面故事 COVER STORY 大路 起初，百家乐结果只在大路上记录。这是主路，并且 所有的路都从这条路衍生而来。 大路很简单。它是一个永远是6行但列数很多的网格状 图。我见到过的显示屏上少则36列，多则50列，但这无关 紧要。在大路上记录时，红圈代表庄赢，蓝圈代表闲赢。 一个牌靴开始时，第一个结果（庄赢或闲赢，暂且忽 略和局）写在大路左上角的第一个格子里。如果第二个结 果相同，那么记录在第一个结果下面。只要赢的一方（庄 或闲）相同，同颜色的圈就竖直向下排。 当赢家为另一方时，就开始新的一列。整个牌靴都按 照同样的方式继续。其结果是，大路变成了一系列红蓝圈 交替的列，每列至少一个圈，高度不限。每次赢的一方变 化时，就重新开始一列，因此每列对应着一条庄家“路” 或闲家“路”，这样“路”的长度的对比就变得一目了然。 在大路上有一些需要注意的细节。和局不使用单独的 圈来显示，只在最近的一个圈上画一条绿色的线。连续和 局就要在圈上画上多条线。有些显示屏会在绿色的线旁边 显示一个数字，代表和局的次数。如果在该牌靴中庄或闲 赢之前先出现和局，那么这条绿线就画在左上角第一个格 子里。当第一个庄赢或闲赢的结果出现时，圆圈就压着绿 线画在同一个格子里。 这意味着如果你在左上角第一个格子里看到一条和局 线画在圈上，并不能确定和局是出现在庄赢或闲赢之前还 是之后。然而对于所有其他的绿线，和局都出现在它所在 圈所代表的一方赢之后。 对子用一个圆点来显示，画在圈的边上（红点代表庄 家对子，蓝点代表闲家对子）。在有些显示屏上，“即赢” 会用黄点画在圈中央来表示。 听起来很复杂，但当你看到右页的图示之后就很容易 理解。左上角的大路显示该牌靴目前出现的结果是：庄 赢、闲赢、闲赢（即赢）、闲赢、庄赢、庄赢、闲赢（闲 家对子）、闲赢（庄家对子）、庄赢和和局。该牌靴中一 共进行了十手牌。 极少出现的情况下，大路上所有的列都被用完，那么 大路会在显示屏上向左挪动，最左边一列就挪出了显示 屏。 The Big Road At first, baccarat results were just recorded on the Big Road. This is the main road and it is the road that all other roads are derived from. The Big Road is sometimes called the “big trailˮ or the “big trendˮ in English, but the more precise translation of the Chinese name 大路 (pronounced da lu in Mandarin or dai lo in Cantonese) is “big road.” The Big Road is fairly simple. It is a grid, always six rows deep by many columns wide (we’ve seen as few as 36 columns and as many as 50 columns, but it doesn’t really matter). When recording the Big Road, a hollow red circle represents a banker win and a hollow blue circle represents a player win. When the shoe begins, the first result (banker or player, ignore ties for now) is written in the top left corner of the Big Road. If the second result is the same side as the first, it goes under the first and as long as the winning side (banker or player) remains the same, circles of the same color continue down vertically. When the “other side” comes up a new column is started and the process continues through the entire shoe in this fashion. As a result, the Big Road becomes a series of columns of alternating blue and red hollow circles, with a minimum height of one circle and no maximum height. Each time the result changes sides between banker and player a new column is used, so each column corresponds to a run or “streak”, allowing easy comparison of the length of streaks. To add to the confusion, the Chinese word for “road” (which is 路 , pronounced lu in Mandarin or lo in Cantonese) is also used as the Chinese word for “run” or “streak”, but the context in which it is usedmakes it clear whether the speaker is referring to a single run of banker or player, or an entire road. There are some finer points for the Big Road. Ties are not displayed as a separate circle, but simply as a green line across the most recent circle drawn. Multiple ties give rise to multiple lines across the circle, or some displays show a small number next to the green line with that number representing the number of ties. If a tie comes up before there has been any banker or player result yet in the shoe, the green tie line is drawn in the very top left cell in the grid and then when the first banker or player result is known, that circle is written in the same cell under the tie line. This means if you see a tie line over the circle in the very top left corner of the grid, you don’t know whether the tie came before or after the first banker or player. For all other green lines the tie came after the hand represented by the circle the line crosses. Pairs are displayed with a dot on the edge of the circle (red dot for banker pair, blue dot for player pair). On some displays, natural winners are displayed with a yellow dot in the middle of the circle. It all sounds confusing, but it’s easy to understand when you look at the Big Road box located top left in the above illustration which shows this sequence of events: banker win, player win, player (with natural), player, banker, banker, player (with player pair), player (with banker pair), banker, tie. Precisely 10 hands have been played in the shoe. In the very unlikely event the Big Road runs out of columns, the road simply scrolls to the left and the results in the leftmost column drop off the display.