The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could envision that there would be very little desire for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be functioning the opposite way around, with the critical market conditions creating a greater eagerness to wager, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For most of the locals living on the meager nearby wages, there are two established types of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of profiting are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by economists who understand the subject that many don’t purchase a card with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the domestic or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the state and sightseers. Up till not long ago, there was a considerably substantial tourist business, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 gambling hall, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming tables, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has diminished by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has cropped up, it isn’t understood how well the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will survive till conditions improve is merely unknown.
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