Zimbabwe gambling dens
Posted in Casino on 03/23/2017 04:25 pm by Esperanza
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may imagine that there would be little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a higher desire to gamble, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For most of the locals surviving on the abysmal local money, there are 2 popular styles of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are remarkably small, but then the prizes are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the subject that most don’t buy a ticket with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the English football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pamper the incredibly rich of the society and vacationers. Up until a short while ago, there was a incredibly big tourist industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected violence have carved 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 slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has diminished by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has arisen, it is not understood how well the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on until conditions get better is merely not known.