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August
Written by Perla.
Posted in: Casino
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the awful economic circumstances creating a higher eagerness to wager, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For almost all of the people living on the abysmal local money, there are two popular styles of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also remarkably high. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the subject that the majority don’t buy a card with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, pamper the exceedingly rich of the country and travelers. Until a short while ago, there was a extremely large sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated violence have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machines. 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 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 table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has contracted by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not well-known how well the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will survive until conditions get better is basically not known.
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