Zimbabwe gambling dens
The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could think that there might be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the awful economic circumstances creating a greater eagerness to wager, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For almost all of the citizens surviving on the meager nearby wages, there are two dominant forms of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the chances of winning are unbelievably tiny, but then the prizes are also extremely big. It’s been said by economists who understand the concept that many don’t buy a ticket with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the English football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the very rich of the state and tourists. Up until recently, there was a incredibly large sightseeing industry, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated conflict have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has contracted by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and crime that has cropped up, it isn’t understood how well the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive till conditions improve is simply not known.
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