The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might think that there would be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be working the other way around, with the awful market circumstances leading to a bigger eagerness to bet, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For many of the locals subsisting on the abysmal nearby wages, there are two common forms of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are unbelievably low, but then the winnings are also very high. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the subject that many do not buy a ticket with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the United Kingston football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pamper the extremely rich of the nation and vacationers. Up until a short while ago, there was a exceptionally big vacationing industry, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has shrunk by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has come about, it isn’t known how well the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry through until conditions get better is simply unknown.
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