The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you may think that there might be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the awful market conditions creating a bigger ambition to bet, to try and find a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For most of the people subsisting on the meager local earnings, there are two established forms of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the odds of profiting are remarkably low, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the concept that many don’t purchase a ticket with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, mollycoddle the very rich of the state and sightseers. Up until a short while ago, there was a extremely substantial tourist industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected bloodshed have carved 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 den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have table games, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has shrunk by more than 40% in recent years and with the associated poverty and violence that has resulted, it is not known how well the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through until things get better is basically unknown.
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