The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might envision that there would be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be operating the other way, with the awful market conditions leading to a larger desire to bet, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the problems.
For most of the citizens subsisting on the tiny nearby money, there are two dominant types of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the odds of profiting are unbelievably small, but then the prizes are also extremely large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the subject that the lion’s share don’t buy a card with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is built on either the local or the United Kingston football leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, cater to the extremely rich of the society and travelers. Until a short while ago, there was a extremely big vacationing industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated violence have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming tables, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has shrunk by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has arisen, it is not understood how well the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive until things improve is basically not known.
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