The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may imagine that there might be very little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be working the opposite way, with the crucial market conditions leading to a bigger ambition to wager, to try and find a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For many of the citizens subsisting on the meager local money, there are 2 established styles of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of succeeding are extremely tiny, but then the winnings are also very big. It’s been said by financial experts who study the subject that many do not purchase a card with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the UK football divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the very rich of the society and vacationers. Until a short while ago, there was a considerably large tourist industry, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming tables, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has deflated by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has arisen, it isn’t understood how healthy the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry through until things get better is basically unknown.
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