The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you may imagine that there might be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the desperate market circumstances creating a greater eagerness to bet, to try and find a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For almost all of the citizens subsisting on the meager local money, there are 2 established styles of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the chances of hitting are extremely tiny, but then the winnings are also remarkably large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that the majority do not buy a card with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, pamper the incredibly rich of the state and tourists. Up until a short time ago, there was a extremely big tourist business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market 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 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 slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has resulted, it isn’t well-known how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive until things get better is basically unknown.
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