About Baccarat Smart
A course and a free calculator for reading baccarat roads.
Baccarat Smart teaches the Big Road and the three roads drawn from it: Big Eye Boy, Small Road and Cockroach Pig. Learn the rules in 6 modules, then enter any shoe into the calculator and watch every road build.
Big Road · who won
21 hands
Big Eye Boy
Small Road
Cockroach Pig
What you get
A course, a calculator and two apps
The course
6 modules and 36 lessons on reading the Big Road and the derived roads, with 94 quiz checks and 74 hands-on exercises. Module 1 is free: 10 lessons, about 64 minutes.
Start Module 1 freeThe calculator
Enter the hands from any shoe and watch the Big Road and all three derived roads build, one hand at a time. It's free for everyone.
Open the calculatorThe apps
The lessons, drills and a road tracker, on iPhone and Android. Available in selected countries.
Built to be right
One engine draws every board
The boards in the lessons, the quizzes, the calculator and the apps all come from the same road engine, so a mark means the same thing wherever you see it.
- road engine
- 1
- platforms: web, iPhone, Android
- 3
- shoes checked and locked
- 1,000
- Its card rules are checked against 1,000 eight-deck shoes published by the Wizard of Odds, down to every third card drawn.
- Its roads for those same shoes are locked. If a single mark or dragon tail changes, a test fails.
- The apps run the same engine, so a board reads the same on your phone as on the site.
What it won't do
It reads the past, never the next hand
Baccarat Smart teaches you to read the board. It never tells you what to bet.
It won't tell you who wins next.
Roads describe hands already dealt, not the next one.
It won't sell you a betting system.
The course teaches what each mark means. What you bet, if anything, is up to you.
It won't change the odds.
Every bet pays the same whether you read the roads or not.
We checkedWe tested the road-agreement signal our own calculator used to show on 2,000 simulated shoes. Its bets won 49.50% of the time and lost about twice as much as betting Banker every hand. So we deleted it.
Why we built it
So anyone can learn to read the board
Most road reading is table superstition or a system for sale. We built Baccarat Smart to teach what every mark actually means, free to start, for anyone who wants to learn.
Questions? Write to us.
About your account, a lesson, the calculator or the apps.
Learn the game. Play within your limits.
Reading the roads helps you understand the game. It won't make any bet more likely to win. Baccarat Smart is for adults: set a limit before you play, and stop when you reach it.
Responsible gambling resourcesModule 1 is free. Start there.
About 64 minutes of lessons, no card needed. When you want the whole course, it's $25 a month.