Zimbabwe Casinos
Wednesday, 9. December 2009
The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could think that there might be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be operating the opposite way, with the desperate economic circumstances leading to a bigger ambition to wager, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For most of the people surviving on the tiny local earnings, there are two common forms of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also extremely big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the idea that the lion’s share don’t purchase a card with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the British football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, mollycoddle the considerably rich of the country and vacationers. Up until a short while ago, there was a exceptionally big tourist business, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected conflict have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 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 only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has arisen, it isn’t well-known how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will be alive till things get better is merely unknown.
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