The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could envision that there would be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the awful economic conditions creating a bigger desire to gamble, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For most of the locals surviving on the meager local earnings, there are 2 dominant styles of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the jackpots are also very large. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that many do not purchase a card with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, cater to the astonishingly rich of the society and travelers. Until a short while ago, there was a very substantial tourist business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated conflict have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two 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 slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic 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 tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come about, it isn’t understood how healthy the tourist industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive until things get better is basically not known.
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