The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be functioning the opposite way, with the critical economic conditions leading to a bigger eagerness to wager, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the problems.
For almost all of the citizens surviving on the abysmal local money, there are two dominant forms of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of profiting are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also extremely high. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that the majority don’t buy a card with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the British soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the exceedingly rich of the society and travelers. Up till recently, there was a incredibly substantial vacationing industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected conflict have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has shrunk by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and crime that has come about, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will be alive till conditions get better is basically unknown.
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