Part I: Games & Gaming · Card Games — Baccarat & Blackjack

Big Road

Baccarat

The primary baccarat scoreboard that tracks consecutive wins by banker (red hollow circles) and player (blue hollow circles). Results are recorded top to bottom, and a new column begins each time the winning side changes. The Big Road serves as the foundation for all derived roads (Big Eye Boy, Small Road, Cockroach Pig) and does not record hand scores.

In practice

When a column fills vertically and the same side continues to win, the pattern turns horizontally, creating what is called a “Dragon Tail.”

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