The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be very little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the awful economic conditions leading to a larger eagerness to gamble, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For most of the locals surviving on the abysmal nearby wages, there are two established styles of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the odds of profiting are unbelievably tiny, but then the winnings are also remarkably big. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that many don’t buy a ticket with an actual assumption of profiting. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the British soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the very rich of the nation and tourists. Until recently, there was a exceptionally large tourist industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated crime 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 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker 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 halls and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has shrunk by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has resulted, it isn’t understood how healthy the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will be alive till conditions improve is basically not known.
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