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Zimbabwe gambling halls
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might think that there would be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the atrocious market conditions creating a larger desire to wager, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For the majority of the locals subsisting on the tiny local money, there are two popular types of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of profiting are unbelievably small, but then the winnings are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by economists who look at the idea that the majority don’t purchase a ticket with an actual belief of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the English football divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, look after the incredibly rich of the country and tourists. Up till a short time ago, there was a considerably big vacationing business, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected bloodshed have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. 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, both of which offer table games, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has diminished by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it is not well-known how well the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry on till conditions get better is merely unknown.