The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a greater ambition to play, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For many of the people subsisting on the tiny local money, there are 2 established types of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of hitting are surprisingly low, but then the prizes are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that the lion’s share don’t buy a ticket with an actual belief of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the United Kingston football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, cater to the very rich of the country and travelers. Up until a short time ago, there was a extremely large vacationing industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected bloodshed have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the 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 two of which contain table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has 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 gambling dens and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has shrunk by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has come about, it is not known how healthy the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry on till things improve is merely unknown.
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