The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might envision that there might be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the desperate economic circumstances creating a higher ambition to bet, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way from the problems.
For many of the people surviving on the meager local earnings, there are two dominant forms of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of profiting are extremely small, but then the winnings are also very large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that most don’t buy a card with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the United Kingston football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, look after the extremely rich of the society and vacationers. Up till a short while ago, there was a very big vacationing industry, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated violence have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has contracted by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has cropped up, it is not well-known how healthy the sightseeing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will be alive until conditions get better is basically unknown.
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