The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the awful market circumstances leading to a higher eagerness to bet, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For nearly all of the citizens living on the meager nearby money, there are two established types of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of hitting are surprisingly tiny, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the subject that the lion’s share don’t purchase a ticket with an actual expectation of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the English football leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the very rich of the society and sightseers. Until not long ago, there was a extremely large vacationing industry, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated violence have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only 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 have gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has cropped up, it isn’t understood how healthy the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through until conditions improve is merely unknown.
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