The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you might imagine that there might be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the critical market conditions leading to a bigger desire to wager, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For the majority of the citizens subsisting on the tiny local money, there are two popular forms of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the chances of hitting are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that the lion’s share do not purchase a ticket with an actual belief of hitting. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, cater to the exceedingly rich of the nation and vacationers. Until not long ago, there was a considerably large vacationing industry, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated conflict have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has contracted by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has cropped up, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through till things improve is simply not known.
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