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Zimbabwe gambling dens
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the desperate economic circumstances leading to a bigger desire to play, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For almost all of the people surviving on the tiny nearby money, there are two established types of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of hitting are unbelievably small, but then the prizes are also very big. It’s been said by financial experts who study the subject that most don’t buy a ticket with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the national or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, cater to the incredibly rich of the society and vacationers. Up until recently, there was a very large vacationing business, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected violence have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, 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 contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has 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 aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has diminished by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has come to pass, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry on till things get better is simply not known.