The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be functioning the opposite way around, with the critical economic circumstances leading to a larger eagerness to gamble, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For nearly all of the citizens living on the meager local earnings, there are 2 popular types of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of winning are remarkably small, but then the prizes are also remarkably large. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that the majority don’t buy a ticket with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is built on either the local or the UK football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, look after the extremely rich of the country and sightseers. Up until recently, there was a incredibly big tourist business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated crime have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has contracted by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has arisen, it isn’t well-known how well the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through till conditions improve is simply unknown.
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