The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might think that there might be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the crucial market circumstances leading to a higher ambition to bet, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For almost all of the locals surviving on the tiny local money, there are two dominant types of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of succeeding are remarkably low, but then the jackpots are also extremely high. It’s been said by economists who study the idea that the majority don’t buy a card with the rational assumption of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the English football divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the society and sightseers. Until a short while ago, there was a very substantial tourist business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated crime have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has resulted, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will still be around until conditions improve is basically unknown.
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