PHTAYA Baccarat Roadmap — From Bead Plate to Cockroach Pig

A baccarat roadmap is the set of scoreboards a live table displays beside the cards, and it comes down to 5 roads: bead plate, big road, big eye boy, small road and cockroach pig. Every one of them belongs to live casino strategy as a tracking tool, not a predicting one, and reading them in the right order is what makes the other four make sense.

1. Bead plate: every hand, in order

Bead plate is the simplest of the 5 roads: one cell per hand, filled left to right and top to bottom, coloured for banker, player or tie. Nothing is grouped and nothing is derived — it is a plain running log of what already happened.

Column	What it fills with
1	The first 6 hands dealt
2	The next 6 hands
3+	Continues the same way as the shoe plays out

2. Big road baccarat scoreboards: the same results, grouped into streaks

Big road takes the bead plate’s results and groups consecutive identical winners into a single column, dropping to a new column only when the winner changes. A run of 4 banker wins in a row becomes one column of 4 marks stacked vertically, not 4 separate cells.

1. A new column starts whenever the winner changes from the previous hand.
2. A repeat winner stacks downward in the same column instead of starting a new one.
3. A tie is marked on the existing cell rather than starting its own column.

Big road is the foundation every derived road below is built from — none of the other 3 roads reads the cards directly.

3. Big eye boy: pattern of the pattern

Big eye boy compares each new column of big road against the column before it, marking whether the pattern is repeating or breaking:

1. Regular mark — the new column’s shape matches what the comparison expects, based on big road alone.
2. Irregular mark — the new column breaks that expectation.

It is one full step removed from the actual hands — a road built from a road.

4. Small road: the same idea, one column further back

Small road runs the identical regular-or-irregular comparison as big eye boy, but offset by one extra column:

1. Big eye boy compares each new column against the column directly before it.
2. Small road runs the same comparison one column further back than that.

The two often look similar without being identical, because they are the same logic applied at a different offset.

5. Cockroach pig: the third derived road

Cockroach pig completes the set, comparing columns another step further back again using the same regular-or-irregular logic as the two roads above it. Some tables display it; some don’t — it changes nothing about which 5 roads exist, only which ones a given table chooses to show.

Reading a baccarat roadmap after the squeeze

A finished baccarat roadmap is only ever a record, and treating it as one keeps all 5 roads useful for what they actually do: showing a table’s history, not its future.

1. Read bead plate first, for the raw sequence of results.
2. Read big road next, for the grouped streak shape.
3. Read big eye boy, small road and cockroach pig last, as pattern-of-pattern detail on top of big road.

Once the 5 roads make sense as a set, why a baccarat squeeze gets added on top of them is the natural next question, and PHTAYA’s live casino game shows show what a table without any of these roads looks like instead.