The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might imagine that there might be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the atrocious market circumstances leading to a higher eagerness to play, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the situation.
For almost all of the locals subsisting on the meager nearby wages, there are two popular styles of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the chances of succeeding are extremely small, but then the prizes are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by financial experts who study the idea that the majority don’t buy a ticket with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the British football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the astonishingly rich of the country and travelers. Up till a short while ago, there was a exceptionally substantial sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated bloodshed 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 one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, 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, the pair of which have table games, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have video poker 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 complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has come about, it isn’t known how well the vacationing business which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive until things get better is basically unknown.
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