The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a larger ambition to play, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For nearly all of the locals subsisting on the meager nearby wages, there are two common styles of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the chances of succeeding are extremely small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that the majority do not buy a card with the rational expectation of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the English soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pamper the considerably rich of the country and vacationers. Up till recently, there was a considerably big tourist business, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated violence have cut into this trade.
Amongst 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 gambling den, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has deflated by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has come to pass, it is not known how well the tourist industry 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.
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