The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could envision that there might be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the awful economic circumstances leading to a higher ambition to bet, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For nearly all of the people subsisting on the abysmal nearby money, there are 2 dominant types of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of profiting are unbelievably small, but then the prizes are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that many don’t buy a card with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the UK soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the very rich of the nation and vacationers. Until a short time ago, there was a exceptionally big sightseeing business, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated violence have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, 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, the two of which contain table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has shrunk by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and violence that has resulted, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will still be around till things improve is simply unknown.
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