25
December
Written by Lucy.
Posted in: Casino
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there might be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be working the other way around, with the desperate economic circumstances leading to a bigger desire to wager, to try and find a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For most of the people subsisting on the meager local wages, there are 2 dominant styles of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of winning are surprisingly low, but then the prizes are also very high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the idea that the majority do not purchase a ticket with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, cater to the extremely rich of the state and sightseers. Up till a short while ago, there was a exceptionally big tourist business, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated conflict have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, 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, the two of which have gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has come about, it is not well-known how healthy the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry on till things get better is merely unknown.
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