18 Jan 10

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The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be very little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the awful market circumstances leading to a higher desire to gamble, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.

For nearly all of the citizens living on the tiny local earnings, there are 2 popular forms of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the subject that the majority don’t buy a card with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the British football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, pamper the exceedingly rich of the society and travelers. Up until recently, there was a incredibly substantial sightseeing industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated conflict have cut into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 just the slots. 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 gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have slot machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the market has contracted by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has resulted, it is not well-known how well the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through until things improve is basically unknown.


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