Zimbabwe gambling dens
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be very little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be working the other way, with the atrocious market circumstances leading to a larger eagerness to gamble, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the problems.
For almost all of the people surviving on the tiny local earnings, there are two common types of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of profiting are extremely small, but then the prizes are also very high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that many do not purchase a card with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the British soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, look after the very rich of the country and tourists. Until recently, there was a considerably substantial sightseeing business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected conflict have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has diminished by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has come about, it isn’t understood how well the tourist industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry through till things improve is merely unknown.
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