The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you might envision that there would be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the desperate economic conditions leading to a larger ambition to wager, to try and find a quick win, a way from the situation.
For nearly all of the citizens living on the abysmal local wages, there are two common forms of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the chances of succeeding are remarkably tiny, but then the prizes are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that most don’t purchase a card with the rational assumption of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the British football leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the very rich of the country and vacationers. Up till a short time ago, there was a extremely large sightseeing industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated violence have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slots. 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 table games, 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 have gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has diminished by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry through till conditions get better is simply not known.
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