The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could think that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be working the other way around, with the awful economic conditions leading to a bigger eagerness to bet, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For most of the people living on the meager nearby money, there are two dominant forms of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the chances of succeeding are remarkably tiny, but then the prizes are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by financial experts who study the concept that the majority don’t buy a card with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is founded 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, pamper the considerably rich of the society and vacationers. Up till recently, there was a very large tourist industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.
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 gambling den, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has deflated by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how well the vacationing business which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive until conditions improve is simply unknown.
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