27
July
Written by Kaylen.
Posted in: Casino
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be functioning the other way around, with the desperate market conditions creating a greater eagerness to play, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the situation.
For most of the locals subsisting on the tiny local earnings, there are two popular styles of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of profiting are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the concept that the lion’s share don’t purchase a ticket with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, look after the extremely rich of the country and tourists. Up till a short while ago, there was a very big sightseeing business, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has deflated by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has arisen, it is not understood how healthy the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry on until things get better is simply not known.
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