The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you may imagine that there would be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the awful economic circumstances creating a larger eagerness to bet, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For almost all of the people surviving on the abysmal nearby money, there are two dominant types of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of winning are surprisingly tiny, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that the lion’s share don’t buy a ticket with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, pamper the considerably rich of the nation and sightseers. Up until recently, there was a very large tourist industry, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated bloodshed 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 one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, slot machines and video poker 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 casinos and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has shrunk by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has resulted, it is not well-known how healthy the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive until conditions get better is basically not known.
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