Zimbabwe Casinos

by Hudson on November 10th, 2009

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The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could envision that there might be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the critical market conditions leading to a bigger desire to bet, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the problems.

For many of the people living on the meager nearby wages, there are 2 established forms of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of hitting are remarkably tiny, but then the winnings are also very big. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the situation that the majority don’t buy a ticket with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the English football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pander to the very rich of the country and sightseers. Up till not long ago, there was a very big tourist business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated bloodshed have carved into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, one armed bandits 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 offer gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

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

Seeing as that the market has shrunk by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and violence that has cropped up, it is not understood how well the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry through until conditions improve is merely unknown.

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