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22 WGM #55 2018/02 wgm8.com 23 WGM #55 2018/02 wgm8.com 所有路放在一起 在大多数百家乐游戏中，每个牌靴使用8副牌，足够发 70至80手牌，取决于娱乐场对于牌靴最后的切牌规定。上 图显示的这个牌靴目前一共玩了70手牌，可以说几乎已完 成。注意大路在最上方，下面是三条下路。大眼仔在大路 左下方，下面是小路。曱甴路位于右边。要注意标准曱甴 路应该是6个标记的高度。珠盘路在显示屏的左下角、三 条下路的下面。记住，在有些显示屏上，珠盘位于大路上 方。 你或许会问到最右边WGM吉祥物貔貅上方那个包含 三个蓝色标记和三个红色标记的表格“庄问路&闲问路”， 但对于它的解释还为时尚早。 无可否认，理解百家乐之“路”是个复杂而冗长的话 题，因此我们必须将本文分为两个部分。第一部分已提供 了丰富的信息，下期WGM我们会完成第二部分及总结。 在第二部分你将了解到： • 红 蓝笔：如何知道每手牌之后在下路使用红色还 是蓝色标记 • 庄 问路&闲问路：这个表格如何与下路相关 • 对 “路”的分析：如何决定每手牌应该投注什么 以及投注多少 Putting it all together Most baccarat games use eight decks per shoe. This is enough for about 70 to 80 hands, depending on the casino’s policy regarding howmany cards they cut off the back of the shoe. The above graphic shows a shoe where 70 hands have been played, so it’s almost completed. Notice the Big Road is at the top, with the three derived roads underneath it. Big Eye Boy is below to the left and the Small Road is below Big Eye Boy. Cockroach Road is to the right. Note that a standard Cockroach Road is only six symbols in height. The Bead Plate is shown toward the bottom left of the screen, underneath the three derived roads. Remember, on some displays the Bead Plate is shown above the Big Road. You are probably wondering about the small table at the extreme right with the three blue and three red symbols in it (above the WGM mascot, Pai Yao). This table is called the “prediction table”, but don’t worry about that for now, all in good time. There is no denying that understanding baccarat trends is a complicated and lengthy subject, somuch so that we had to break this article into two parts. There’s already a wealth of information in this first part and in the next issue of WGM we’ll bring you the second and concluding part. In part two you can expect to learn: • The color rules: how to know whether a red or blue symbol is added to each of the three derived roads after each hand • The prediction table: how the table relates to the derived roads • How to interpret the roads: how players determine what to bet on each hand, and howmuch to bet. Chinese (pronounced yue you lu in Mandarin and kat tsat lo in Cantonese). Mandarin speakers, who use a totally different word for cockroach, won’t normally understand the written 曱甴路 or the spoken kat tsat lo. A casino boss friend of ours said he heard some junket agents chose the unusual name “cockroach.” There are some fundamental differences between the three derived roads and the easy-to-understand Big Road and Bead Plate. Here are some important points to understand about the three derived roads: 1. They are not a direct representation of the results of the shoe so far. It is futile to try to find a relationship between the Big Road and the derived roads just by the naked eye without understanding the so-called “color rules”, which are described later in this article. 2. They are all derived from the Big Road and describe the patterns in the Big Road. Each of Big Eye Boy, the Small Road and the Cockroach Road describe slightly different kinds of patterns (we’ll get to that later). Derived roads don’t tell you exactly what happened, they tell you whether there were patterns in what happened. 3. The derived roads are made up of red and blue symbols: hollow circles for Big Eye Boy, solid circles for the Small Road and slashes for the Cockroach Road (see the opposite image). 4. IMPORTANT: The red and blue symbols that make up the derived roads do not correspond to banker or player. They just mean red and blue (later you will see “red” generally means there is a pattern and “blue” generally means that the shoe is “choppy”, with no pattern). Understanding this is fundamental to understanding derived roads and the fact that red and blue do not represent banker and player is often a source of much confusion for players new to baccarat trend following. 5. These red and blue symbols are the only symbols in the derived roads. There are no special markings corresponding with ties, pairs or naturals. The derived roads only concern themselves with trends and patterns of banker and player results. 6. Due to the operation of the color rules (which will be explained later), the derived roads do not start at the beginning of the shoe. They start on the completion of these hands: • For Big Eye Boy: The hand after the first hand in the second column of the Big Road • For the Small Road: The hand after the first hand in the third column of the Big Road. • For the Cockroach Road: The hand after the first hand in the fourth column of the Big Road. 7. Once a derived road starts, an additional red or blue symbol will be added to that derived road after every hand. 8. Derived roads follow some conventions that are also followed by the Big Road. Specifically: • columns alternate between streaks of red and blue (with a minimum of one row, and no maximum) • on hitting the bottom of the grid (or an occupied cell due to an earlier dragon), the streak of red or blue turns right to create a dragon • in the extremely rare case that there is no room to go down because an earlier dragon occupies the second row of a column, the streak is recorded horizontally on the top row of the grid • if the grid runs out of room to the right, the entire road scrolls left and the column on the far left drops off the screen • in the extremely rare case that there are so many dragons that it is confusing which symbol belongs to which streak, players can identify the individual streaks by small lines connecting the symbols in the roads 9. Because of the rules explained earlier above about the commencement of the derived roads, the number of symbols in the derived roads will be less than the number of symbols in the Big Road. The difference will be: • For Big Eye Boy: the number of symbols in the first column of the Big Road, plus one • For the Small Road: the number of symbols in the first two columns of the Big Road, plus one • For Cockroach Road: the number of symbols in the first three columns of the Big Road, plus one 封面故事 COVER STORY