Zimbabwe gambling dens
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may imagine that there would be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the atrocious market conditions creating a larger desire to bet, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For almost all of the citizens living on the tiny nearby earnings, there are two common forms of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of winning are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the subject that many do not buy a card with an actual belief of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the national or the English soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, cater to the exceedingly rich of the state and tourists. Up till not long ago, there was a very large tourist business, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected crime have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both 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, the pair of which have video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has deflated by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not understood how healthy the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will still be around until things get better is basically not known.
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