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Zimbabwe gambling halls
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way, with the critical market circumstances creating a bigger desire to play, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For most of the locals living on the abysmal nearby money, there are two dominant styles of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of succeeding are extremely tiny, but then the jackpots are also remarkably high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the subject that most don’t purchase a card with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the national or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, look after the exceedingly rich of the society and tourists. Up till a short while ago, there was a exceptionally large sightseeing industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected violence have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slots. 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, both of which contain table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has come to pass, it is not known how well the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive till conditions improve is merely not known.