The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might envision that there might be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be working the other way around, with the crucial economic conditions creating a bigger ambition to wager, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the situation.
For the majority of the citizens subsisting on the meager nearby money, there are two established forms of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of winning are extremely tiny, but then the winnings are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that most do not buy a ticket with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the UK football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the extremely rich of the society and tourists. Until a short time ago, there was a very substantial tourist business, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected violence have carved into this market.
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 gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer 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, each of which have slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not well-known how well the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will be alive till things improve is basically not known.
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