The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might think that there would be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be working the other way around, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a higher eagerness to bet, to try and find a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For many of the citizens living on the tiny local wages, there are 2 common styles of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of succeeding are unbelievably small, but then the winnings are also extremely large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the concept that most don’t buy a ticket with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, look after the considerably rich of the nation and tourists. Up until a short while ago, there was a extremely large tourist business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected conflict have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, 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 offer video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not well-known how well the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on until conditions improve is simply not known.
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