The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you may imagine that there would be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be working the opposite way, with the atrocious market conditions leading to a higher ambition to bet, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For nearly all of the citizens subsisting on the abysmal local earnings, there are two dominant styles of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of hitting are extremely low, but then the winnings are also remarkably large. It’s been said by financial experts who study the subject that the lion’s share don’t purchase a ticket with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the English football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the very rich of the nation and sightseers. Until a short time ago, there was a incredibly substantial vacationing industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two 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 just slots. 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, each of which has gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how healthy the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will survive until conditions get better is basically not known.
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