The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you may think that there would be very little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the awful economic conditions creating a larger desire to play, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For many of the citizens surviving on the meager local wages, there are two common forms of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of profiting are remarkably small, but then the prizes are also extremely high. It’s been said by economists who look at the subject that many don’t buy a ticket with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the UK soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the nation and travelers. Up until not long ago, there was a very large sightseeing industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have 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 offer gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has deflated by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has arisen, it is not known how healthy the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will be alive till things get better is simply unknown.
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