The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could envision that there would be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the awful market conditions leading to a higher desire to play, to try and find a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For almost all of the locals living on the meager local wages, there are 2 common styles of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of winning are unbelievably tiny, but then the prizes are also extremely big. It’s been said by economists who look at the idea that many do not purchase a card with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, cater to the very rich of the society and sightseers. Until a short time ago, there was a very big vacationing industry, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated violence have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has contracted by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has resulted, it isn’t understood how well the vacationing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will survive until things get better is basically not known.
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