The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you may envision that there might be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the crucial economic conditions leading to a greater desire to wager, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For the majority of the locals subsisting on the meager local earnings, there are two popular forms of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of profiting are extremely tiny, but then the winnings are also very large. It’s been said by economists who study the idea that the lion’s share do not buy a card with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, mollycoddle the very rich of the nation and sightseers. Up until a short while ago, there was a very big vacationing industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected crime have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has diminished by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has come about, it isn’t well-known how healthy the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive until conditions improve is simply unknown.
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