The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could think that there would be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the awful market conditions creating a higher desire to bet, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the situation.
For nearly all of the citizens living on the meager local earnings, there are 2 dominant styles of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of winning are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also very high. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the idea that most don’t purchase a card with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the astonishingly rich of the nation and travelers. Until not long ago, there was a very big sightseeing industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated conflict have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 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 pair of which have gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has deflated by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has resulted, it isn’t known how well the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive until things improve is simply not known.
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