• Zimbabwe Casinos

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    The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the desperate market circumstances creating a larger ambition to wager, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the crisis.

    For almost all of the citizens living on the meager local earnings, there are two dominant forms of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the chances of succeeding are remarkably small, but then the jackpots are also very high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the idea that many don’t buy a card with the rational assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the UK soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.

    Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, cater to the incredibly rich of the nation and sightseers. Up until not long ago, there was a exceptionally substantial sightseeing business, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected conflict have carved into this trade.

    Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has gaming machines and table games.

    In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

    Since the market has shrunk by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has cropped up, it isn’t known how healthy the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive until conditions get better is merely not known.

     November 23rd, 2009  Nathanial   No comments

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