The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might think that there would be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the critical economic circumstances leading to a greater ambition to gamble, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For many of the locals living on the meager local money, there are two common types of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of profiting are extremely low, but then the jackpots are also very high. It’s been said by economists who study the idea that many don’t buy a card with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the British football leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the very rich of the society and tourists. Up till not long ago, there was a considerably big sightseeing business, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated violence have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming tables, slots 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 slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has cropped up, it isn’t understood how well the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will survive until things improve is simply not known.
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