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Don’t Have an Alcoholic Beverage … Gamble!

August 30th, 2023 No comments

If you like to have a cocktail every so often, keep your cash at home if you are going to do your drinking in a casino. I’m serious. Leave your handbag, your wallet, and keep all money, credit cards and checkbooks back at the hotel. Only take only the money you anticipate to spend on refreshments, tips and whatever pocket change you intend to burn and keep the remainder behind.

Pessimistic? Not really. Realistic more like. You may well have a win following a inebriated night out with your friends and be blessed enough to hook a 25 minute roll at a hot craps table. Keep that adventure because it’s as brief as it gets if you continuously consume alcohol and gamble. The pair just don’t mix.

Leaving your moolah back at the hotel is a little bit drastic, but defensive actions for drastic behavior is required. If you play to profit, then do not consume alcohol and bet. If you like to be wasteful with your money nary a worry, then drink all the complimentary booze your stomach can handle, but don’t take charge cards and cheques to throw into the mix of chasing losses after your inebriated self throws away all the cash!

Permit me to carry this 1 step further. Don’t consume alcohol and then hop on the net to wager in your preferred internet casino either. I love to drink from the comfort of my condominium, however because I’m hooked up through Neteller, Firepay and have charge cards in close proximity, I can not drink and wager.

What’s the reason? Although I do not drink alcohol to excess, when I drink, it’s certainly sufficient to cloud my common sense. I gamble, so I don’t drink alcohol when betting. If you are more of a drinker, don’t bet when you do. The two mix up for a dangerous, and costly, cocktail.

Zimbabwe gambling halls

August 20th, 2023 No comments

The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might think that there might be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the desperate economic conditions leading to a larger ambition to bet, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the difficulty.

For many of the citizens surviving on the meager local earnings, there are 2 popular types of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the odds of profiting are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the subject that most do not buy a ticket with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the United Kingston football leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pander to the incredibly rich of the state and tourists. Up until not long ago, there was a extremely substantial sightseeing business, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated conflict have carved into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. 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, both of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has contracted by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has arisen, it isn’t well-known how healthy the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry through until conditions improve is merely unknown.