The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might envision that there might be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be working the other way around, with the atrocious market circumstances leading to a larger desire to play, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For many of the citizens subsisting on the tiny local earnings, there are 2 popular styles of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the chances of hitting are surprisingly tiny, but then the jackpots are also remarkably high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the subject that the majority don’t buy a card with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, cater to the exceedingly rich of the society and vacationers. Up until not long ago, there was a extremely big tourist business, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated crime have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machines. 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 pair of which offer 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, the two of which have video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by more than 40% in recent years and with the associated poverty and violence that has come about, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through until conditions improve is basically not known.
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