The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could think that there might be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be operating the other way, with the desperate market circumstances creating a greater eagerness to gamble, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For nearly all of the people living on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 popular forms of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of profiting are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by economists who understand the subject that many do not purchase a card with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the UK football leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, cater to the incredibly rich of the country and tourists. Until a short time ago, there was a considerably large tourist industry, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected crime have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slots. 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, both of which contain gaming tables, slot machines and video 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 gambling dens and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has cropped up, it is not known how healthy the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry on until things get better is merely unknown.
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