The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be very little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the awful market conditions leading to a larger eagerness to play, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For many of the locals subsisting on the tiny nearby wages, there are two popular forms of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of winning are unbelievably small, but then the prizes are also extremely large. It’s been said by economists who look at the situation that many don’t buy a card with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the British soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pamper the astonishingly rich of the country and sightseers. Up till recently, there was a incredibly substantial sightseeing industry, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated conflict have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 Casino, which has only 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, the pair of which contain 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 have gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and violence that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how well the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive until things get better is merely unknown.
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