The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the critical market conditions creating a higher eagerness to wager, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For many of the locals surviving on the meager local money, there are 2 common forms of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of profiting are surprisingly tiny, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the idea that the lion’s share don’t buy a ticket with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the UK soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the exceedingly rich of the society and tourists. Up until not long ago, there was a very big sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected crime have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain gaming tables, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it isn’t known how healthy the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry through till conditions improve is basically unknown.
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