Zimbabwe gambling dens
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be very little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the desperate economic circumstances creating a bigger ambition to bet, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the problems.
For many of the locals surviving on the meager local wages, there are 2 established types of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the chances of hitting are unbelievably tiny, but then the prizes are also remarkably big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that many do not buy a card with the rational assumption of winning. Zimbet is based on either the national or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the extremely rich of the nation and sightseers. Up until recently, there was a very big tourist business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer table games, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has come to pass, it isn’t understood how well the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will be alive till conditions get better is simply not known.
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